fastigium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin fastigium. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fæsˈtɪd͡ʒ.i.əm/ === Noun === fastigium (plural fastigia) An apex or summit; culmination. (architecture) A pediment or gable end. (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever. ==== Derived terms ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *farstjagjom, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérstis, from *bʰers- (“tip”). Compare Middle Irish brostaim (“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz (“hogweed”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fasˈtiː.ɡi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fasˈtiː.d͡ʒi.um] === Noun === fastīgium n (genitive fastīgiī or fastīgī); second declension peak, summit, top Synonyms: cacūmen, vertex, apex, culmen, summitās Antonym: fundus extreme part, extremity of a thing Synonym: extrēmitās slope, declivity, descent gable sharp point highlight (of a story or poem) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== fastīgō ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: fastigi French: faîte (partially) Italian: fastigio → Portuguese: fastígio Sicilian: fastigiu → Spanish: fastigio ⇒ Spanish: hastial === References === “fastigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fastigium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "fastigium", 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) “fastigium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “fastigium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “fastigium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin