bustum

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Latin

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Etymology

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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.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bustum n (genitive bustī); second declension

  1. 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.
  2. a place for burning funeral pyres (with human remains interred at or near the site)

See Roman funerary practices

Declension

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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

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References

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  • 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
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bustum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 77