bustirapus

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Latin

Etymology

Coined by Plautus. From bustum (“grave”) +‎ rapiō (“to snatch”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /busˈti.ra.pus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /busˈti.ra.pus/,

Noun

bustirapus m (genitive bustirapī); second declension

(hapax, humorous, derogatory) graverobber, robber of tombs
- c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus 1.3.lines 360–361:
  Ps. Verbero. Bal. Quippini? Cal. Bustirape. Bal. Certo. Ps. Furcifer. Bal. Factum optume.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bustirapus	bustirapī
genitive	bustirapī	bustirapōrum
dative	bustirapō	bustirapīs
accusative	bustirapum	bustirapōs
ablative	bustirapō	bustirapīs
vocative	bustirape	bustirapī

References

“bustirapus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
bustirapus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Further reading

“bustirapi”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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