festuca
See also: Festuca
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
festuca f (plural festuche)
- straw
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXXIV, page 506, lines 10–12:
- Già era, e con paura il metto in metro, ¶ là dove l'ombre tutte eran coperte, ¶ e trasparien come festuca in vetro.
- Now was I, and with fear in verse I put it, there where the shades were wholly covered up, and glimmered through like unto straws in glass.
References
- festuca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Alternative forms
- fistūca (“ram, piledriver”), historically sometimes considered a separate word
Etymology
Perhaps connected to ferula, with a common earlier stem *fes-. De Vaan notes if suffixation is with + -ūcus as in several plant names: sambūcus (“elderberry”), albūcus (“asphodel; asphodel bulb”), lactūca (“lettuce”), the stem could be *festo. Gaffiot numbers the sense of ram, piledriver, usually spelt fistūca, a separate word, but it is offered as an alternate spelling in De Vaan.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fesˈtuː.ka/, [fɛs̠ˈt̪uːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fesˈtu.ka/, [fesˈt̪uːkä]
Noun
festūca f (genitive festūcae); first declension
- straw
- stalk, stem
- rod used to touch slaves in ceremonial manumission
- ram, piledriver (often spelt fistūca in this sense)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | festūca | festūcae |
Genitive | festūcae | festūcārum |
Dative | festūcae | festūcīs |
Accusative | festūcam | festūcās |
Ablative | festūcā | festūcīs |
Vocative | festūca | festūcae |
Descendants
- French: fétu
References
- “festuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- festuca 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)
- festuca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “festuca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “festuca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Categories:
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/uka
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian terms with quotations
- Latin terms suffixed with -ucus
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns