fustuarium

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Latin

Etymology

From fustis (cudgel) +‎ -ārium (re-substantivation), via fustuārius (relating to cudgels).

Noun

fūstuārium n (genitive fūstuāriī or fūstuārī); second declension

  1. beating to death with a cudgel (as a military punishment)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

References

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