fustaneum

Latin

Alternative forms
  • fūstāgnum, fūstānium, fūstānum, fūstiānum

Etymology

An ellipsis of (pannus) fustāneus or (tela) fustānea, of uncertain origin; often taken to be from the name of the city الفُسْطَاط (al-fusṭāṭ)[1][2] via an Arabic فُسْتَان (fustān, “dress”). However, the late attestation and formal variation of the Arabic word means that it is likely ultimately from Medieval Latin or one of its Romance descendants. Alternatively, some have derived this word from fūstis (“stick”) +‎ -āneus (in reference to plant textiles), possibly as a calque of Ancient Greek ξύλινα λίνα (xúlina lína, literally “wooden flax”); for the semantics, compare German Baumwolle.[3][4][5]

Pronunciation

Noun

fūstāneum n (genitive fūstāneī); second declension (Medieval Latin, Renaissance Latin)

  1. A fabric ancestral to modern fustian.
  2. A dress or petticoat.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fūstāneum fūstānea
Genitive fūstāneī fūstāneōrum
Dative fūstāneō fūstāneīs
Accusative fūstāneum fūstānea
Ablative fūstāneō fūstāneīs
Vocative fūstāneum fūstānea
  • fūstāneus

Descendants

References
  1. “fustaneum, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. “fustaneum, n. and adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022.
  3. J. F. Niermeyer, editor (1957), “fustaneum”, in Mediae Latinatis Lexicon Minus, volume 5, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 459.
  4. Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui (1981 July 9) The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 199.
  5. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fūstis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 918.
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