English

Noun

fastigium ‎(plural fastigia)

1. An apex or summit; culmination.
2. (architecture) A pediment or gable end.
3. (pathology) The most intense phase of a disease, especially a fever.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís. Compare Middle Irish brostaim ‎(“I goad, spur”), English bristle, Polish barszcz ‎(“hogweed”).

Noun

fastīgium n ‎(genitive fastīgiī); second declension

1. peak, summit, top
2. slope, declivity, descent
3. gable
4. sharp point

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• fastigium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fastigium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FASTIGIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fastigium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• fastigium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fastigium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin