holocaustus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === holocaustos === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔ.ɫɔˈkau̯s.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.loˈkau̯s.tus] === Adjective === holocaustus (feminine holocausta, neuter holocaustum); first/second-declension adjective burnt 3rd century, Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus, Thasci Caecili Cypriani ad Quirinum (Testimoniorum libri tres), III, 15 and 20. In: Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum. Vol. III. Pars I. S. Thasci Caecili Cypriani Opera omnia ex recensione G. Hartelli., Vienna, 1868, p. 128 and 136: Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (editors), The Writings of the Fathers Down to a.d. 325. Ante-Nicene Fathers. Volume 5. Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix., 1995 (reprint; originally published 1886), p. 537 and 540: As gold in the furnace He proved them, and as a burnt-offering He received them. And yet in the soul and spirit of lowliness let us be accepted as the burnt-offerings of rams and bulls, and as it were many thousands of lambs which are fattest. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “holocaustum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 751.