festuca

Noun

 * 1) fescue grass

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) straw
 * 2) fescue
 * 1) fescue

Alternative forms

 * , historically sometimes considered a separate word

Etymology
Perhaps connected to, with a common earlier stem *fes-. De Vaan notes if suffixation is with as in several plant names:, , , the stem could be *festo. 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.

Noun

 * 1) straw
 * 2) stalk, stem
 * 3) rod used to touch slaves in ceremonial manumission
 * 4) ram, piledriver (often spelt  in this sense)
 * 5)  rod as a symbol of legal authority