Translingual

Festuca versicolor

Proper noun

Festuca f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – the fescue grasses.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; Pooideae - subfamily; Poeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• For species see Festuca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or Festuca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Alternative forms

• fistūca ‎(“ram, piledriver”), historically sometimes considered a separate word

Noun

festūca f ‎(genitive festūcae); first declension

1. straw
2. stalk, stem
3. rod used to touch slaves in ceremonial manumission
4. ram, piledriver (often spelt fistūca in this sense)

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• French: fétu

References

• festuca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• FESTUCA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “festuca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• festuca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• festuca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin