fuscina

Compare with furca (“two-pronged fork”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfus.ki.na/, [ˈfʊs̠kɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuʃ.ʃi.na/, [ˈfuʃːinä]

fuscina f (genitive fuscinae); first declension

1. trident, three-pronged spear.

First-declension noun.

• tridēns

• fuscinula

• Italian: fiocina
• Old French: foene
  • French: foëne, foène, fouane, fouëne, fouine
  • Walloon: fonne
  • → English: foin
• → Albanian: fuzhnjë

• fascina

• “fuscina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fuscina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fuscina 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)
• fuscina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fuscina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fuscina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin