fastus

Esperanto

Verb

fastus

1. conditional of fasti

Ido

Verb

fastus

1. conditional of fastar

Latin

Etymology 1

From fās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfaːs.tus/, [ˈfäːs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.tus/, [ˈfäst̪us]

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.tus/, [ˈfäːs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.tus/, [ˈfäst̪us]

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

Etymology 3

May be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérstus, from *bʰers- (“tip”). See also fastīgium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfaːs.tus/, [ˈfäːs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfas.tus/, [ˈfäst̪us]

Noun

fāstus m (genitive fāstūs); fourth declension

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

     fāstus 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.

2. prudery, primness

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fāstus	fāstūs
genitive	fāstūs	fāstuum
dative	fāstuī	fāstibus
accusative	fāstum	fāstūs
ablative	fāstū	fāstibus
vocative	fāstus	fāstūs

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’s 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