rusticus

From Proto-Italic *rowestikos. Equivalent to rūs +‎ -ticus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈruːs.ti.kus/, [ˈruːs̠t̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrus.ti.kus/, [ˈrust̪ikus]

rūsticus (feminine rūstica, neuter rūsticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of the country, rural, rustic
   • 80 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino, XV.42:

     'Nescio' inquit 'quae causa odi fuerit; fuisse odium intellego qui antea, cum duos filios haberet, illum alterum qui mortuus est secum omni tempore volebat esse, hunc in praedia rustica relegarat.'

     'I know not', says he, 'what cause for displeasure there was; but I know that displeasure existed; because formerly, when he had two sons, he chose that other one, who is dead, to be at all times with himself, but sent this other one to his country farms.'

   • 30 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Satirae, Liber II.6:

     Olim rusticus urbanum murem mus paupere fertur accepisse cavo...

     It is told that once upon a time a country mouse in his poor burrow received a city mouse...

2. (figuratively) unrefined, boorish, coarse
   • 55 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Oratore, Liber III, XI.42:

     ...rustica vox et agrestis quosdam delectat...

     ...a boorish and rude voice delights certain men...

   • 42 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epistularum ad Familiares, Liber XVI, 21:

     ...rusticus Romanus factus es.

     ...you were made a Roman farmer.

First/second-declension adjective.

• agrestis

• urbānus

• rūsticānus
• rūsticē
• rūsticitās

rūsticus m (genitive rūsticī); second declension

1. farmer, peasant, rustic
2. (figuratively) a boor

Second-declension noun.

• “rusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rusticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rusticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • tillage; cultivation: opus rusticum
    
  • (ambiguous) country life (the life of resident farmers, etc.: vita rustica
    
• “rusticus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rusticus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray