fastus

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfastus/
• Rhymes: -astus
• Syllabification: fas‧tus

Verb

fastus

1. conditional of fasti

Ido

Verb

fastus

1. conditional of fastar

Latin

Etymology 1

From fās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaːs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfas.tus]

Adjective

fāstus (feminine fāsta, neuter fāstum); first/second-declension adjective

1. allowed (not forbidden)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fāstus	fāsta	fāstum		fāstī	fāstae	fāsta
genitive	fāstī	fāstae	fāstī		fāstōrum	fāstārum	fāstōrum
dative	fāstō	fāstae	fāstō		fāstīs
accusative	fāstum	fāstam	fāstum		fāstōs	fāstās	fāsta
ablative	fāstō	fāstā	fāstō		fāstīs
vocative	fāste	fāsta	fāstum		fāstī	fāstae	fāsta

Etymology 2

For fāstus diēs, from fāstus above.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaːs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfas.tus]

Noun

fāstus m (genitive fāstī); second declension

1. A day on which courts sat
2. court register
3. (in the plural) calendar, almanac

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fāstus	fāstī
genitive	fāstī	fāstōrum
dative	fāstō	fāstīs
accusative	fāstum	fāstōs
ablative	fāstō	fāstīs
vocative	fāste	fāstī

Descendants

• → Italian: fasto

Etymology 3

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Indo-European *bʰérstus?

Proto-Italic *farstus?

Latin fastus

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Italic *farstus, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérs-tus through its oblique stem *bʰr̥st-, from *bʰers- (“tip”). See also fastīgium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfas.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfas.tus]

Noun

fastus m (genitive fastūs); fourth declension

2. arrogance, pride, haughtiness; scornful contempt or disdain of others
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.419:

     fastus inest pulchrīs, sequiturque superbia fōrmam:

     Cold disdain is innate in the fair, and haughtiness accompanies beauty.
     1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 28.

3. fastidiousness, primness

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fastus	fastūs
genitive	fastūs	fastuum
dative	fastuī	fastibus
accusative	fastum	fastūs
ablative	fastū	fastibus
vocative	fastus	fastūs

Derived terms

• fastīdium
• fastuōsus

Descendants

• → Catalan: fast
• → French: faste
• → Italian: fasto
• → Portuguese: fasto
• → Spanish: fasto

References

• “fastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fastus", 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)
• “fastus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the calender (list of fasts and festivals): fasti