encaustum

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /enˈkau̯s.tum/, [ɛŋˈkäu̯s̠t̪ʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /enˈkau̯s.tum/, [eŋˈkäu̯st̪um]

Noun

encaustum n (genitive encaustī); second declension

the purple-red ink used by the later Roman emperors
Near-synonym: ātrāmentum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	encaustum	encausta
Genitive	encaustī	encaustōrum
Dative	encaustō	encaustīs
Accusative	encaustum	encausta
Ablative	encaustō	encaustīs
Vocative	encaustum	encausta

Related terms

encaustus

Descendants

Descendants

Corsican: inchjostru
Dalmatian: inghiastro
Dutch: inkt
Old French: enque
- Middle French: ancre
  - French: encre
  - Norman: encre
  - Walloon: intche
- → Middle English: ynke, ynk, hynke, enke, henk
  - English: ink, inke
    - → Japanese: インク (inku)
    - → Korean: 잉크 (ingkeu)
    - → Telugu: ఇంకి (iṅki)
    - → Welsh: inc
  - Scots: ink
- → Sicilian: inca (obsolete)
  - → Maltese: linka
Neapolitan: gnostro
Friulian: inğhustri
Italian: inchiostro, encausto, incausto
Sicilian: inca
- Maltese: linka
Sicilian: nchiostru
Spanish: encausto
- 　⇒ Spanish: encáustica

References

“encaustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“encaustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
encaustum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “encaustum”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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