fistuca
English
Noun
fistuca (plural fistucae)
- (historical) A kind of piledriver used by the ancient Romans.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fistuca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fisˈtuː.ka/, [fɪs̠ˈt̪uːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fisˈtu.ka/, [fisˈt̪uːkä]
Usage notes
This is the same word as festūca, although some dictionaries do not make a connection between the two. This spelling is generally restricted to the sense given above.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fistūca | fistūcae |
| Genitive | fistūcae | fistūcārum |
| Dative | fistūcae | fistūcīs |
| Accusative | fistūcam | fistūcās |
| Ablative | fistūcā | fistūcīs |
| Vocative | fistūca | fistūcae |
References
- “fistuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fistuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fistuca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fistuc-” in volume 6, column 828, in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
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