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Latin
Etymology
Hybridism, from fūstis (“a stick”) + Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”) + -us.
Pronunciation
Noun
fūstibalus m (genitive fūstibalī); second declension
- sling-staff
- Coordinate term: funda (“sling”)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- fustibalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- fustibalus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “fustibalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press