festuca

== English == === Noun === festuca (plural festucas) fescue grass == Italian == === Etymology === From Latin festūca. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fesˈtu.ka/ Rhymes: -uka Hyphenation: fe‧stù‧ca === Noun === festuca f (plural festuche) straw fescue === Further reading === festuca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana == Latin == === Alternative forms === fistūca (“ram, piledriver”), historically sometimes considered a separate word === Etymology === Perhaps connected to ferula, with a common earlier stem *fes-. De Vaan notes if suffixation is with -ūcus as in several plant names: sambūcus (“elderberry”), albūcus (“asphodel; asphodel bulb”), lactūca (“lettuce”), the stem could be *festo-. According to Etimo, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“peak, tip, pointed, bristle”), similar to fastigium (“summit, peak, sharp point”). Gaffiot numbers the sense of ram, piledriver, usually spelt fistūca, a separate word, but it is offered as an alternative spelling in De Vaan. Also compare fistula (“pipe, tube”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɛsˈtuː.ka] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fesˈtuː.ka] === Noun === festūca f (genitive festūcae); first declension straw stalk, stem rod used to touch slaves in ceremonial manumission Synonym: vindicta ram, piledriver (often spelt fistūca in this sense) (Medieval Latin) rod as a symbol of legal authority ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== dēfestūcō festūcātiō festūcō ==== Descendants ==== French: fétu Italian: festuca → Translingual: Festuca === References === “festuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "festuca", 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) “festuca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “festuca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “festuca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “festuca”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill