wastina

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *wōstini (“desert, wilderness, waste”). Alternatively, though less likely due to the alternative forms listed above, from vastō (“to devastate, ravage or lay waste”) +‎ -īna.

Pronunciation

Noun

wastīna f (genitive wastīnae); first declension[1][2]

  1. (Medieval Latin) wasteland, uncultivated land

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative wastīna wastīnae
genitive wastīnae wastīnārum
dative wastīnae wastīnīs
accusative wastīnam wastīnās
ablative wastīnā wastīnīs
vocative wastīna wastīnae

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “warda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1130
  2. ^ wastina 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)
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