lustrum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin lūstrum. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈlʌstɹəm/ Hyphenation: lus‧trum === Noun === lustrum (plural lustra or lustrums) (historical) A lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census. [from late 16th c.] (by extension, literary) Synonym of quinquennium: Any 5-year period. ==== Synonyms ==== (both senses): luster ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === == Indonesian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Dutch lustrum, from Latin lūstrum (“a period of five years; a purificatory sacrifice, lustration”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈlustrum/ [ˈlus.t̪rʊm] Rhymes: -ustrum Syllabification: lus‧trum === Noun === lustrum (plural lustrum-lustrum) lustrum, quinquennium (a period of five years) Synonym: pancawarsa === Further reading === “lustrum”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Per De Vaan (2008), from Proto-Indo-European *l(H)u-(s)tro- (“dirty place”), from Proto-Indo-European *le(H)w- (the same root as lutum (“mud, dirt, clay”)) + *-trom (see -trum), compare lūstrum, flū̆stra and mōnstrum. Valpy (1828) proposed instead a borrowing, with change of *d to /l/, from Ancient Greek *δύστρον (*dústron), from δύω (dúō, “to plunge”). ==== Noun ==== lustrum n (genitive lustrī); second declension bog, morass, place where boars and swine wallow Synonym: volūtābrum (usually in the plural) den or lair of wild beasts; wood, forest (usually in the plural) (a place of) debauchery ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Derived terms ===== lustrō ===== Descendants ===== → Albanian: lyshtër → English: luster (“den”) === Etymology 2 === From Old Latin *loustrom, of uncertain origin, with multiple theories proposed: from Proto-Indo-European *lewkstrom, from *lewk- (“to make bright”) (whence lūceō), or from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃strom, from *lewh₃- (“to wash”) (whence lavō), or from Proto-Indo-European *lewHstrom, from *lewH- (“to expiate, set free”) (whence luō). Compare lustrum, flū̆stra and mōnstrum. ==== Noun ==== lūstrum n (genitive lūstrī); second declension a purificatory sacrifice (expiatory offering) or lustration performed every five years by the censor Synonym: piāculum a period of five years Synonym: quīnquennium ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (neuter). ===== Derived terms ===== lūstrālis lūstrō ===== Descendants ===== Catalan: lustre, llustre → English: lustrum Italian: lustro Sicilian: allustru Spanish: lustro Portuguese: lustro === References === === Further reading === “lustrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lustrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "lustrum", 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) “lustrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “lustrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “lustrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag