hasta – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of hasta

Noun: hasta
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singularhasta
Pluralhastae

Genitive

Singularhastae
Pluralhastārum

Dative

Singularhastae
Pluralhastīs

Accusative

Singularhastam
Pluralhastās

Ablative

Singularhastā
Pluralhastīs

Vocative

Singularhasta
Pluralhastae

Sample Sentences

  • Petere aliquem hastā. (To attack someone with a spear.)
  • Victumne putāstī / Thēsea, dīre Creōn? Adsum, nec sanguine fessum / crēde; sitit meritōs etiamnum haec hasta cruōrēs. (Did you think Theseus is defeated, cruel Creon? I am here, and do not believe I'm tired of blood, even my spear is still thirsty for righteous slaughter.) [c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Thebais 12.593–595]

Nouns inflected like hasta

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Disputed. Michiel de Vaan suggests a possible Proto-Italic form Proto-Italic *hastā-. It is also conjectured to be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰasto- or *ǵʰasdʰo- (“branch ~ spear, sharp spine”) (see below for Indo-European cognates), but the phonetics are problematic. Likely of ultimately non-Indo-European substrate origin.
2. Cognates include Irish gad (“withe”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌶𐌳𐍃 (gazds, “spine, aculeus”) and Old Norse gaddr (“spear, goad”) (loaned into English as gad); the Celtic and Germanic forms point to a PIE pre-form *ǵʰasdʰo-. A relationship with Sanskrit हस्त (hasta, “hand”) (see hir) is unlikely. A relationship with Albanian heshtë, ushtë and shtijë (all meaning “spear”) is uncertain.
3. Also compared to Umbrian hostatu (acc.pl.m.), hostatir (dat.pl.m), of unknown meaning, but the root vowel /o/ does not match the Latin /a/. See: Irish Nouns 'gad', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐌰𐌶𐌳𐍃', Old Norse Nouns 'gaddr'.

Verbs referencing "hasta"

Irish Nouns gad, Galician Nouns hasta, Portuguese Nouns hasta, Catalan Nouns ast, English Nouns haslet, Catalan Nouns asta, Italian Nouns asta, German Nouns Gerte.

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