bustum

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Backformed from compounds of Latin ūrere, ustum (“to burn”), via metanalysis of amb-ustum as am-bustum, which also led to combūrō. C.f. the etymology of bruciare.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbus.tum/, [ˈbʊs̠t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbus.tum/, [ˈbust̪um]

Noun edit

bustum n (genitive bustī); second declension

burial mound, grave, tomb
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.551–552:
  bustīs exīsse feruntur et tacitae questī tempore noctis avī
  [but] their [dead] forefathers are said to have come forth from their tombs, and to have uttered their complaints in the hours of the still night
  1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. Henry T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 71.
a place for burning funeral pyres (with human remains interred at or near the site)

See Roman funerary practices

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bustum	busta
Genitive	bustī	bustōrum
Dative	bustō	bustīs
Accusative	bustum	busta
Ablative	bustō	bustīs
Vocative	bustum	busta

Descendants edit

Descendants

Catalan: bust
→ English: bust
Dalmatian: buast
→ Irish: busta
→ Ancient Greek: βοῦστον (boûston)
Italian: busto
- → French: buste
Portuguese: busto
Spanish: busto

References edit

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