rusticus

== Latin == === Etymology === From earlier *rowestikos, itself composed of *rowos, *rowezos + -ticus. The form *rowos continues Proto-Italic *rowos. Equivalent to rūs +‎ -ticus. Compare typologically agrestis, pāgānus. See cīvīlis for more. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈruːs.tɪ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈrus.ti.kus] === Adjective === rūsticus (feminine rūstica, neuter rūsticum); first/second-declension adjective of the country, rural, rustic Synonym: agrestis Antonym: urbānus (figuratively) unrefined, boorish, coarse ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === Noun === rūsticus m (genitive rūsticī); second declension farmer, peasant, rustic (figuratively) a boor ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “rusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “rusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “rusticus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “rusticus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “rusticus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray