bustum

== Latin == === Etymology === Backformed from compounds of Latin ūrere, ustum (“to burn”), via metanalysis of amb-ustum as am-bustum, which also led to combūrō. The interpretation of the word was thus "place for burning things around" > "place for funeral pyres" > "burial mound", whence later senses of "upper torso" in descendant languages. Compare also the etymology of the related Italian bruciare (“to burn”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbʊs.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbus.tum] === Noun === bustum n (genitive bustī); second declension burial mound, grave, tomb a place for burning funeral pyres (with human remains interred at or near the site) See Roman funerary practices ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “bustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "bustum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “bustum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “bustum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “bustum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin