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Fasti | Fasting | Fastidious | Fastidiousness | Fastidiously

Fasti meaning

  1. The calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac. They were generally engraved on stone, e.g. marble
  2. Records or registers of important events (outside the dominion of Ancient Rome)

Using Fasti

  • The main meaning on this page is: The calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac. They were generally engraved on stone, e.g. marble | Records or registers of important events (outside the dominion of Ancient Rome)
  • In the example corpus, fasti often appears in combinations such as: the fasti, ovid fasti, fasti triumphales.

Context around Fasti

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 6 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

ovid 2× extant 1× ancient 1× people 1× imperial 1× official 1× poem 1×

Often after:

triumphales 2× capitolini 2× praenestini 1× continued 1× left 1× poem 1× ovid 1× amiternini 1× iii 1×

Sentence patterns with Fasti

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

173 ovid fasti iv 863 1× abandon the fasti poem about 1× as the fasti capitolini which 1× bath in fasti iii ovid 1× calendars or fasti have been 1× extant fasti a section 1× fasti the festivals 1× in the fasti 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a considerable number 1× augustus claimed the 1× beard p 265 1× being far from 1× by contrast ares 1× conversely the roman 1×

Common sentence endings:

5 229 260 1× a thousand works 1× achilles is there 1× assigned to jupiter 1× date 752 bc 1× fasti left off 1×

Words around Fasti

Just before it in the word index:

fasthorse 4 fastfood 5 fastestvpn 2 fastest 1.654 faster 3.935 fastens 17

Just after it in the word index:

fastidious 27 fastidiously 3 fastidiousness 4 fasting 412 fastjet 4 fastlane 16

Similar in corpus frequency:

aar 34 abdulla 34 abimbola 34 abp 34 accommodative 34 accoutrements 34

Corpus analysis for Fasti

  • In this selection, "fasti" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, ovid, extant, ancient, triumphales, capitolini and praenestini stand out and add context to how "fasti" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 173 ovid fasti iv 863 and abandon the fasti poem about. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "fasti" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with fasti

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Dioysius may have seen the Fasti. (6 words)

In the Fasti Amiternini, this festival is assigned to Jupiter. (10 words)

Onofrio Panvinio 's Fasti continued where the ancient Fasti left off. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for "elders," and that the following month (June) is named for the iuniores, or "young people" (Fasti VI.88). (43 words)

Being far from Rome, he had no access to libraries, and thus might have been forced to abandon the Fasti poem about the Roman calendar, of which only the first six books exist – January through June. (36 words)

In any case, the 8-day nundinal cycle began to be displaced by the 7-day week in the first century AD, and dominical letters began to appear alongside nundinal letters in the fasti. (34 words)

Example sentences (20)

Extant fasti A section of the Fasti Praenestini, with the entry on the " Feast of Robigo " (bottom right).

Onofrio Panvinio 's Fasti continued where the ancient Fasti left off.

A considerable number of inscribed calendars, or fasti, have been discovered.

Augustus claimed the victory as his own but permitted Crassus a second, which is listed on the Fasti for 27 BC.

Beard, p. 265. Ovations are listed along with triumphs on the Fasti Triumphales.

Being far from Rome, he had no access to libraries, and thus might have been forced to abandon the Fasti poem about the Roman calendar, of which only the first six books exist – January through June.

By contrast, Ares's Roman counterpart Mars was born from Juno alone, according to Ovid ( Fasti 5.229–260).

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for "elders," and that the following month (June) is named for the iuniores, or "young people" (Fasti VI.88).

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Detail from the Arch of Titus showing his triumph held in 71 for his successful Sack of Jerusalem For triumphs of the Roman regal era, the surviving Imperial Fasti Triumphales are incomplete.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.75 Even the official Fasti Capitolini offers its own date, 752 BC.

Dioysius may have seen the Fasti.

Either might have been dedicated on April 13 or June 13 (days of Iuppiter Victor and of Iuppiter Invictus, respectively, in Ovid's Fasti).

Fasti ("The Festivals") main Six books in elegiacs survive of this second ambitious poem that Ovid was working on when he was exiled.

In any case, the 8-day nundinal cycle began to be displaced by the 7-day week in the first century AD, and dominical letters began to appear alongside nundinal letters in the fasti.

In Ovid's poem Fasti Ovid has the hero Hercules visiting Chiron's home on Pelion while the child Achilles is there.

In Roman legend Aeneas vowed all of that year's wine of Latium to Jupiter before the battle with Mezentius : cf. G. Dumézil ARR above p. 173 ; Ovid Fasti IV 863 ff.

In the Fasti Amiternini, this festival is assigned to Jupiter.

Like the Metamorphoses, the Fasti was to be a long poem and emulated aetiological poetry by writers like Callimachus and, more recently, Propertius and his fourth book.

Most modern historians tacitly assume that it began on the day the consuls took office, and ancient documents such as the Fasti Capitolini which use other AUC systems do so in the same way.

Narrat. 117 citation A head of "Sulis-Minerva" found in the ruins of the Roman baths in Bath In Fasti III, Ovid called her the "goddess of a thousand works".

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Common combinations with fasti

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "fasti" in a sentence?
An example: "Extant fasti A section of the Fasti Praenestini, with the entry on the " Feast of Robigo " (bottom right)." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "fasti" from authentic English texts.
What does "fasti" mean?
Fasti means: The calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac. They were generally engraved on stone, e.g. marble
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