fastigium
Americannoun
plural
fastigiums, fastigiaEtymology
Origin of fastigium
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1670–80
Example Sentences
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Claudianus certe istud fastigium non attingit, & quod in Maroniana dictione, in illa periodorum ac numerorum varietate præclarum putamus, vix est, ut ejus vel levem umbram ostentet.
From Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. by Benson, William
According to the researches of Thomas, Squire, and Wunderlich, as abstracted by Seguin, the fever of the eruptive period is divided into a moderately febrile stage and the fastigium or acme.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
From the palace at the northeast corner of the Palatine, he crossed the roof of the templum divi Augusti, then the fastigium basilicæ Juliæ, and lastly the Temple of Saturn close to the Capitolium.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
It was said of old, "ὁτι scientiæ fundamentum, διὁτι fastigium."
From What is Darwinism? by Hodge, Charles
Frontal fastigium: in Orthoptera, that process of the face extending dorsad between the antennae and meeting or nearly meeting the fastigium of the vertex in Tettigidae.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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