holocaustum

== Latin == === Etymology === From the neuter form of Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos), from ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔ.ɫɔˈkau̯s.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.loˈkau̯s.tum] === Noun === holocaustum n (genitive holocaustī); second declension a burnt offering wholly consumed by fire holocaust ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “holocaustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "holocaustum", 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) “holocaustum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.