bustum
Latin
Etymology
Probably related to combūstum, perhaps from the past participle of an unattested root *būrere (compare combūrere).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbus.tum/, [ˈbʊs̠t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbus.tum/, [ˈbust̪um]
Noun
bustum n (genitive bustī); second declension
- A burial mound, tomb
- A place for burning funeral pyres.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | bustum | busta |
Genitive | bustī | bustōrum |
Dative | bustō | bustīs |
Accusative | bustum | busta |
Ablative | bustō | bustīs |
Vocative | bustum | busta |
Descendants
Descendants
References
- “bustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bustum 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)
- bustum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “bustum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “bustum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin