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Latin
Etymology
Neuter of mustus (“newborn, new, fresh, perhaps lit. 'wet'”)
Pronunciation
Noun
mustum n (genitive mustī); second declension
- must; unfermented or partially fermented grape juice or wine; new wine; vintage
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.558:
- inque cavōs ierant tertia musta lacūs
- and three times had the must been poured into the hollow wine-vats
(The Latin word for ‘‘new’’ or ‘‘fresh’’ is mustus; mustum means freshly pressed grape juice or must.)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “mustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mustum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “mustum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “mustum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin