fūstis
Meaning
- a knobbed stick, a cudgel, staff, club
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
baculum, lignum ad pugnambaculum, lignumChoosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Fustis · Ferula · Sudes · Trudes · Rudis · Scipio · Baculus
1. Fustis and ferula denote sticks for striking; sudes, trudes, and rudis, for thrusting; scipio and baculus, for walking. 2. Fustus (πτορθός?) is a cudgel or club, large enough to strike a man dead; but ferula, a little stick, or rod for the chastisement of school-boys; sudes (ὄζος) and trudes (στορθή, the root of Trüssel, a weapon called the Morning-star) [a sort of truncheon with a spiked head], are used in battle; rudis (ὀρσός) only as a foil in the fencing-school; scipio (σκηπίων, σκῆψαι), serves especially for ornament and state, as a symbol of superior power, or of the honor due to age; baculus, bacillum (βάκτρον), serve more for use and convenience to lean upon, and at the same time, when necessary, as a weapon. (iii. 265.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fūstis | fūstēs |
| genitive | fūstis | fūstium |
| dative | fūstī | fūstibus |
| accusative | fūstem | fūstēs fūstīs |
| ablative | fūste fūstī | fūstibus |
| vocative | fūstis | fūstēs |
sceptrum, scipio, ferula, baculum): tamquam si claudus sim, cum fusti est ambulandum, Plaut. As. 2, 4, 21; Varr. L. L. 5, § 137 Müll.: severae Matris ad arbitrium recisos Portare fustes, Hor. C. 3, 6, 41; for threshing out grain: ipsae spicae melius fustibus cuduntur, Col. 2, 20, 4. —Esp. for cudgelling: auferere, non abibis, si ego fustem sumpsero, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 202: male mulctati clavis ac fustibus, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94: non opus est verbis, sed fustibus, id. Pis. 30, 73: si filius meus fustem mihi impingere volet? Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 8, 9: quos tu nisi fuste coërces, Hor. S. 1, 3, 134: mulae caput fuste dolare, id. ib. 1, 5, 22: fuste aperire caput, Juv. 9, 98: injuria committitur cum quis fuste percussus erit, Gai Inst. 3, 220: fustium admonitio, Dig. 48, 19, 7.—And for beating to death, as a milit. punishment (v. fustuarium): sorte ductos fusti necat, Sall. H. Fragm. 4, 5 Dietsch: primipili centurionem ob turpem ex acie fugam fusti percussit, Vell. 2, 78 fin.; Tac. A. 3, 21; Front. S. 4, 1, 34 Oud.; Auct. B. Hisp. 27 fin.; Paul. Sent. 5, 18, 1; 5, 21, 1.—Hence: formidine fustis (i. e. to be beaten to death) ad bene dicendum redacti, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 154.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Of disputed origin: * De Vaan derives it from *fūt- + -tis, from the same root as *fūtō (“to strike”). The phonetically regular outcome would be *fūssis (and then *fūsis); therefore, De Vaan supposes *-s-s- was analogically replaced with -s-t-. Compare aestus, aestās. * Others, for *fonstis < *fondtis < *xʷondtis, refer it to Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to strike, slay, kill”). Compare offendō. * Potentially related to English fist, further Old Norse bausta (“to smack, to thrash”).
- Italianfusto
- Italianfuscello
- Italianfrusta
- Sicilianfustu
- Romanianfuște
- Romanianfuscel
- Catalanfust
- Occitanfustfrom Old Occitan fust
- Old Frenchfust
- Portuguesefuste
- Spanishfuste
- Asturianfuste
- Galicianfuste
- Piedmontesefust
- Irishsúiste