bustum

== Latin == === Etymology === Backformed from compounds of Latin ūrere, ū̆stum (“to burn”), via metanalysis of amb-ū̆stum as am-bū̆stum, 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): [ˈbuːs.tũː], [ˈbʊs.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbus.tum] === Noun === bū̆stum n (genitive bū̆stī); 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 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “būstum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1: A–B, page 651