rusticus

Latin

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

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

    1. of the country, rural, rustic
      Synonym: agrestis
      Antonym: urbānus
      • 80 BCE, Cicero, Pro Roscio Amerino 15.42:
        '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.'
      • c. 35 BCE, Horace, Satires (book 2) 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

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative rūsticus rūstica rūsticum rūsticī rūsticae rūstica
    genitive rūsticī rūsticae rūsticī rūsticōrum rūsticārum rūsticōrum
    dative rūsticō rūsticae rūsticō rūsticīs
    accusative rūsticum rūsticam rūsticum rūsticōs rūsticās rūstica
    ablative rūsticō rūsticā rūsticō rūsticīs
    vocative rūstice rūstica rūsticum rūsticī rūsticae rūstica

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    Noun

    rūsticus m (genitive rūsticī); second declension

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

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative rūsticus rūsticī
    genitive rūsticī rūsticōrum
    dative rūsticō rūsticīs
    accusative rūsticum rūsticōs
    ablative rūsticō rūsticīs
    vocative rūstice rūsticī

    References

    • “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[1], 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
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