fusta

Inherited from Late Latin fusta (“beam”), from Latin fustis, with a change in gender. See also the dialectal or archaic fust.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfus.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈfus.ta]

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fusta f (plural fustes)

1. wood, timber
2. constitution, makings

   No tenia la fusta de polític.

   He didn't have the makings of a politician.

• fustam
• fuster

• “fusta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “fusta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “fusta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fusta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Portuguese fusta.

fusta (first-person possessive fustaku, second-person possessive fustamu, third-person possessive fustanya)

1. (dated) light boat

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.sta/
• Rhymes: -usta
• Hyphenation: fù‧sta

From Latin fūstis (“beam”),[1] possibly through Venetian [Term?].[2] Compare Portuguese and Spanish fusta, Old French fuste. Doublet of fusto and of below.

fusta f (plural fuste)

1. (historical) a kind of fast galley used mainly by pirates

   Hypernym: galea

• → Albanian: fustë

Borrowed from Latin fūstis m.[1] Doublet of fusto and of above.

fusta f (plural fuste)

1. (archaic) torch

   Synonyms: fiaccola, torcia

2. (archaic) strong rope, especially if made of rushes

   Synonym: fune

• fusta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Medieval Latin; from fustis (“cudgel, staff”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuːs.ta/, [ˈfuːs̠t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfus.ta/, [ˈfust̪ä]

fūsta f (genitive fūstae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) beam

First-declension noun.

• fustibalus
• fustīgō
• fustis

• Catalan: fusta
• Occitan: fusta
• Portuguese: fusta
  • → English: fust
• Spanish: fusta

• fusta 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)

From Medieval Latin fūsta (“beam, log”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfysto/

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fusta f (plural fustas)

1. wood, lumber
2. beam

• husta (Gascon)

• fustatge
• fustam
• fustariá
• fustièr

• IPA^(key): [ˈfusta]

fusta f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fustă

Feminized counterpart to Spanish fuste. Compare Catalan fusta, Portuguese fusta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfusta/ [ˈfus.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: fus‧ta

fusta f (plural fustas)

1. thin flexible stick or whip used to spur horses

   Synonym: látigo

2. a type of wool fabric
3. light boat with one or two masts, often used for exploration
4. bundle of sticks, branches and/or firewood

• “fusta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “fuste”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 983