haustus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of hauriō (“draw, drain”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhau̯s.tus/, [ˈhäu̯s̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯s.tus/, [ˈäu̯st̪us]

Participle

haustus (feminine hausta, neuter haustum); first/second-declension participle

1. drawn, drained, having been drawn
2. swallowed, absorbed, having been swallowed
3. (of blood) spilled, shed, having been spilled
4. devoured, consumed, exhausted, depleted, used up; engulfed; having been exhausted
5. torn up, plucked out, drawn out; dug up, hollowed out; having been plucked out
6. drawn, derived, borrowed, taken, having been borrowed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	haustus	hausta	haustum		haustī	haustae	hausta
Genitive	haustī	haustae	haustī		haustōrum	haustārum	haustōrum
Dative	haustō		haustō		haustīs
Accusative	haustum	haustam	haustum		haustōs	haustās	hausta
Ablative	haustō	haustā	haustō		haustīs
Vocative	hauste	hausta	haustum		haustī	haustae	hausta

Noun

haustus m (genitive haustūs); fourth declension

1. The act of drawing or draining.
2. The act of drinking or swallowing.
3. Something which is drunk; a drink, draught.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	haustus	haustūs
Genitive	haustūs	haustuum
Dative	haustuī	haustibus
Accusative	haustum	haustūs
Ablative	haustū	haustibus
Vocative	haustus	haustūs

References

• “haustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “haustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• haustus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• haustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare