fastigium

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English

Etymology

From Latin fastigium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fæsˈtɪd͡ʒ.i.əm/

Noun

fastigium (plural fastigia)

  1. An apex or summit; culmination.
  2. (architecture) A pediment or gable end.
  3. (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.
    • 1871, C A Wunderlich, “Fundamental Principles”, in W. Bathurst Woodman, transl., On the Temperature in Diseases: A Manual of Medical Thermometry. Translated from the Second German Edition (New Sydenham Society Publications; XLIX), London: The New Sydenham Society, →OCLC, § 32, page 14:
      e find that the duration and succession of the febrile phenomena constitute five principal groups. 2. Fevers which are essentially continuous in their course (continued fevers), which exhibit but slight daily differences of temperature during their fastigium or acme, and defervesce rapidly (by crisis).

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *farstjagjom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérstis, from *bʰers- (“tip”). Compare Middle Irish brostaim (“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz (“hogweed”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fastīgium n (genitive fastīgiī or fastīgī); second declension

  1. peak, summit, top
    Synonyms: cacūmen, vertex, apex, culmen, summitās
    Antonym: fundus
  2. extreme part, extremity of a thing
    Synonym: extrēmitās
  3. slope, declivity, descent
  4. gable
  5. sharp point
  6. highlight (of a story or poem)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative fastīgium fastīgia
genitive fastīgiī
fastīgī1 		fastīgiōrum
dative fastīgiō fastīgiīs
accusative fastīgium fastīgia
ablative fastīgiō fastīgiīs
vocative fastīgium fastīgia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • French: faîte (partially)
  • Italian: fastigio
  • Spanish: hastial
  • → Portuguese: fastígio
  • Sicilian: fastigiu
  • → Spanish: fastigio

References

  • “fastigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fastigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "fastigium", 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)
  • fastigium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fastigium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fastigium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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