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English
Noun
ustrina
- plural of ustrinum
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Italian
Noun
ustrina f (plural ustrine)
- Alternative form of ustrino
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Latin
Etymology
From ū̆stor (“cremator, corpse-burner”) + -īna (suffix forming nouns referring to places).
Pronunciation
Noun
ū̆strīna f (genitive ū̆strīnae); first declension
- place for burning dead bodies
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “ustrina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ustrina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “ustrina”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC