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Latin
Etymology
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
Noun
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
- their 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
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “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