fastigium
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
fastigium (plural fastigia)
- An apex or summit; culmination.
- (architecture) A pediment or gable end.
- (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.
- 1871, C[arl Reinhold] A[ugust] Wunderlich, W. Bathurst Woodman, transl., “Fundamental Principles”, in On the Temperature in Diseases: A Manual of Medical Thermometry. [...] Translated from the Second German Edition (New Sydenham Society Publications; XLIX), London: The New Sydenham Society, →OCLC, § 32, page 14:
- [W]e find that the duration and succession of the febrile phenomena constitute five principal groups. […] 2. Fevers which are essentially continuous in their course (continued fevers), which exhibit but slight daily differences of temperature during their fastigium or acme, and defervesce rapidly (by crisis).
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *farstjagjom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérstis, from *bʰers- (“tip”). Compare Middle Irish brostaim (“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz (“hogweed”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fasˈtiː.ɡi.um/, [fäs̠ˈt̪iːɡiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fasˈti.d͡ʒi.um/, [fäsˈt̪iːd͡ʒium]
Noun
fastīgium n (genitive fastīgiī or fastīgī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fastīgium | fastīgia |
Genitive | fastīgiī fastīgī1 |
fastīgiōrum |
Dative | fastīgiō | fastīgiīs |
Accusative | fastīgium | fastīgia |
Ablative | fastīgiō | fastīgiīs |
Vocative | fastīgium | fastīgia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
- French: faîte (partially)
- Italian: fastigio
- Spanish: hastial
- → Portuguese: fastígio
- Sicilian: fastigiu
- → Spanish: fastigio
References
- “fastigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fastigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fastigium 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)
- fastigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fastigium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fastigium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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