fusta

See also: fustă

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin fusta (“beam”), from Latin fustis, with a change in gender. See also the dialectal or archaic fust.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfus.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfus.ta]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

fusta f (plural fustes)

1. wood, timber
2. constitution, makings

   No tenia la fusta de polític.

   He didn't have the makings of a politician.

Derived terms

• fustam
• fuster

Further reading

• “fusta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fusta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fusta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fusta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese fusta.

Noun

fusta (first-person possessive fustaku, second-person possessive fustamu, third-person possessive fustanya)

1. (dated) light boat

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.sta/
• Rhymes: -usta
• Hyphenation: fù‧sta

Etymology 1

From Latin fūstis (“beam”), possibly through Venetian [Term?]. Compare Portuguese and Spanish fusta, Old French fuste. Doublet of fusto and of below.

Noun

fusta f (plural fuste)

1. (historical) a kind of fast galley used mainly by pirates

   Hypernym: galea

Descendants

• → Albanian: fustë

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin fūstis m. Doublet of fusto and of above.

Noun

fusta f (plural fuste)

1. (archaic) torch

   Synonyms: fiaccola, torcia

2. (archaic) strong rope, especially if made of rushes

   Synonym: fune

Further reading

• fusta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Latin

Etymology

Medieval Latin; from fustis (“cudgel, staff”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfuːs.ta/, [ˈfuːs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfus.ta/, [ˈfust̪ä]

Noun

fūsta f (genitive fūstae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) beam

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fūsta	fūstae
Genitive	fūstae	fūstārum
Dative	fūstae	fūstīs
Accusative	fūstam	fūstās
Ablative	fūstā	fūstīs
Vocative	fūsta	fūstae

Related terms

• fustibalus
• fustīgō
• fustis

Descendants

• Catalan: fusta
• Occitan: fusta
• Portuguese: fusta
  • → English: fust
• Spanish: fusta

References

• fusta 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)

Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin fūsta (“beam, log”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfysto/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

fusta f (plural fustas)

1. wood, lumber
2. beam

Dialectal variants

• husta (Gascon)

Derived terms

• fustatge
• fustam
• fustariá
• fustièr

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfusta]

Noun

fusta f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fustă

Spanish

Etymology

Feminized counterpart to Spanish fuste. Compare Catalan fusta, Portuguese fusta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfusta/ [ˈfus.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: fus‧ta

Noun

fusta f (plural fustas)

1. thin flexible stick or whip used to spur horses

   Synonym: látigo

2. a type of wool fabric
3. light boat with one or two masts, often used for exploration
4. bundle of sticks, branches and/or firewood

Derived terms

• fustazo

 

Further reading

• “fusta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “fuste”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 983