speusticus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπευστικός (speustikós, “hasty”), from σπεύδω (speúdō, “to hasten”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspeu̯s.ti.kus/, [ˈs̠pɛu̯s̠t̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspeu̯s.ti.kus/, [ˈspɛu̯st̪ikus]

Adjective

speusticus (feminine speustica, neuter speusticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. hastily made (especially of a kind of bread)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.XXVII:

     […] alias a festinatione, ut speustici […]

     • Translation by Rackham, Jones, & Eichholz

       […] in others from the short time spent in making it, as hasty-bread […]

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	speusticus	speustica	speusticum		speusticī	speusticae	speustica
Genitive	speusticī	speusticae	speusticī		speusticōrum	speusticārum	speusticōrum
Dative	speusticō		speusticō		speusticīs
Accusative	speusticum	speusticam	speusticum		speusticōs	speusticās	speustica
Ablative	speusticō	speusticā	speusticō		speusticīs
Vocative	speustice	speustica	speusticum		speusticī	speusticae	speustica

Further reading

• “speusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press