fusta

See also: fustă

Catalan

Etymology

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): (Valencian) [ˈfus.ta]

Noun

fusta f (plural fustes)

1. wood

Derived terms

• 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.

---

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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
• Portuguese: fusta
• 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)

---

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin fusta, from Latin fustis, with a change in gender. See also the related fuste.

Noun

fusta f (plural fustas)

1. whip, crop

Synonyms

• látigo m