speusticus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σπευστικός (speustikós, “hasty”), from σπεύδω (speúdō, “to hasten”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspeu̯s.ti.kus/, [ˈs̠pɛu̯s̠t̪ɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspeu̯s.ti.kus/, [ˈspɛu̯st̪ikus]
Adjective
speusticus (feminine speustica, neuter speusticum); first/second-declension adjective
- hastily made (especially of a kind of bread)
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.XXVII:
- […] alias a festinatione, ut speustici […]
- Translation by Rackham, Jones, & Eichholz
- […] in others from the short time spent in making it, as hasty-bread […]
- Translation by Rackham, Jones, & Eichholz
- […] alias a festinatione, ut speustici […]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | speusticus | speustica | speusticum | speusticī | speusticae | speustica | |
| Genitive | speusticī | speusticae | speusticī | speusticōrum | speusticārum | speusticōrum | |
| Dative | speusticō | speusticō | speusticīs | ||||
| Accusative | speusticum | speusticam | speusticum | speusticōs | speusticās | speustica | |
| Ablative | speusticō | speusticā | speusticō | speusticīs | |||
| Vocative | speustice | speustica | speusticum | speusticī | speusticae | speustica | |
Further reading
- “speusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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