fastus Latin · revision 5762

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|attested=Catullus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈfas.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈfas.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fastus''' ''m'' (genitive fastūs); fourth declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Its origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The OLD suggests a link with [[fastīgium]] “top”, and de Vaan thinks the only reasonable connection is with *farsti- “top”, from [[ine-pro|*bʰrs-tu-|t=top, point]], with a shift from “top” to “haughtiness”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) [[fastīdium]] “disgust” would then be a compound *fastu-taidiom with [[taedet]] “it wearies”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Catullus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Catullus 81/79–52/50 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant pride, haughtiness, scornful disdain, mostly in poetry, as Propertius' disdain of a beloved, and in later prose.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Tacitus has the disdain of the Parthians for their native feasts.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It was also a superior attitude to things, fastidiousness, as Seneca's gourmets who will only taste a fish they have seen swimming.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Medieval writers used it of the splendour of high position and of ambition.^(Niermeyer 1976) It was borrowed into French as ''faste'' “pomp” and into [[it|fasto]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius uses it of a beloved's disdain.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of gourmets' fastidiousness.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|Pride]], [[m|en|haughtiness]], disdain.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Fastidiousness.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The splendour of high position.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fastōsus]]

+ * [[fastīdium]]

+ * [[fastuōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fastīgō]]

+ * [[taedet]]

+ * [[fastīgium]]

+ * [[superbia]]

+ * [[en|fastidious]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Fāstus'' (long ''ā''), from [[fās]], is a different word, an adjective used of days on which legal business could be done, whose plural ''fāstī'' was the calendar.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}