fuste

Meaning

1. (masculine) wood
2. (masculine) stick
3. (masculine) shaft of a spear
4. (masculine) stem of a leaf
5. (figuratively, masculine) foundation or basis
6. (masculine) moral integrity or substance
7. (masculine, poetic) horse-saddle
8. (masculine) shaft of a column

Concepts

shaft

tree

🌳

rod

saddletree

shank

stems

wood

🪵

culms

bole

haulms

fust

Synonyms

enagua

coherencia

caña

sarmiento

tallos

fundamentación

sentido

Translations

Schaft

fusto

arçon

🌳

fût

fuetto

Rute

Halm

Kern

Stange

Stengel

sarment

tige

bastone

cauli

culmi

Hyphenated as

fus‧te

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfuste/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: fūstis

Cognate with Galician: fuste

In summary

Inherited from Latin fūstis (“stick, club”). Noting the unexpected /f-/, Coromines & Pascual dismiss the possibility of a borrowing from neighbouring Romance varieties (cf. Galician fuste) and point out that the word was common in medieval times but restricted to more technical registers afterwards, which may have allowed the traditional orthography with ⟨f⟩ to determine the pronunciation.