wastina

Latin

Alternative forms

wostina, vastina, gastina, wastinia, wastena

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *wōstini (“desert, wilderness, waste”). Alternatively, though less likely due to the alternative forms listed above, from vastō (“to devastate, ravage or lay waste”) +‎ -īna.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯asˈtiː.na/, [u̯äs̠ˈt̪iːnä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vasˈti.na/, [väsˈt̪iːnä]

Noun

wastīna f (genitive wastīnae); first declension[1][2]

(Medieval Latin) wasteland, uncultivated land

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	wastīna	wastīnae
Genitive	wastīnae	wastīnārum
Dative	wastīnae	wastīnīs
Accusative	wastīnam	wastīnās
Ablative	wastīnā	wastīnīs
Vocative	wastīna	wastīnae

Descendants

Old French: gastine, wastine, guastine
- Middle French: gastine
  - French: gâtine
- → Middle English: wastyne, wastayne, wastene, wasteyn, wasteyne, wastin, wastine

References

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “warda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1130
wastina 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)

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[1] Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “warda”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1130

[2] wastina 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)