noun · neutersecond declension
flū̆stra
flū̆stra n pl (genitive flū̆strōrum)
Meaning
- obsoletecalm at sea, the quiet state of the sea
Flustra, motus maris sine tempestate fluctuantis. Naevius in bello Poenico quod ait: honorariae honestae stabant in flustris, ut si diceret in salo
Flustra, the movement of the sea when not surging from bad weather. Naevius says in his "Bellum Poenicum": "[honorariae honestae] stood still in the calm", that is to say, "in the sea".69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, “Operum quae perierunt Fragmenta”, in C. Suetonii Tranquili Opera Omnia, volumen tertium, 1826 edition, page 1145:
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | flū̆stra |
| genitive | flū̆strī | flū̆strōrum |
| dative | flū̆strō | flū̆strīs |
| accusative | — | flū̆stra |
| ablative | flū̆strō | flū̆strīs |
| vocative | — | flū̆stra |
flustra, ōrum, n. id.,
I. the usual quiet state of the sea, a calm (ante- and postclass.):
flustra, motus maris sine tempestate fluctuantis. Naevius in bello Poenico quod ait: honorariae honestae stabant in flustris, ut si diceret in salo, Suet. Fragm. p. 425 ed. Bip. (reprinted ap. Müll. Fest. pp. 89, 382); cf.: flustra dicuntur, cum in mari fluctus non moventur, quam Graeci μαλακίαν vocant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 89 Müll.: mare de nustris temperatum, Tert. de Pall. 2.Origins
Seemingly from fluō (“to flow”) + -trum. The -s- has been explained either as an analogically transferred consonant from words that originally had a root-final dental (e.g. rāstrum, rōstrum), or as a remnant of an original s-stem neuter noun ending in *-os (with a phonetic development like *flov-os-tra > *floustra > flūstra; compare *re-vorsos > *rovorsos > *roursus > rūrsus and frūstrā); compare also mōnstrum, lustrum and lūstrum.
Descendants
- Italianflustra
- Italianflustro