festuca.
straw; stalk (used in manumission); ram for beating down earth, piledriver;
Meaning & usage
straw
stalk, stem
rod used to touch slaves in ceremonial manumission
ram, piledriver (often spelt fistūca in this sense)
rod as a symbol of legal authority
Where this word comes from
Perhaps connected to ferula, with a common earlier stem *fes-. De Vaan notes if suffixation is with -ūcus as in several plant names: sambūcus (“elderberry”), albūcus (“asphodel; asphodel bulb”), lactūca (“lettuce”), the stem could be *festo-. According to Etimo, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“peak, tip, pointed, bristle”), similar to fastigium (“summit, peak, sharp point”). Gaffiot numbers the sense of ram, piledriver, usually spelt fistūca, a separate word, but it is offered as an alternative spelling in De Vaan. Also compare fistula (“pipe, tube”).
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