encaustum

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔγκαυστον (énkauston), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”), from καίω (kaíō, “I burn”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /enˈkau̯s.tum/, [ɛŋˈkau̯s.tũ]

encaustum n (genitive encaustī); second declension

1. the purple-red ink used by the later Roman emperors

Second declension.

• encaustus

• encaustum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• encaustum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• encaustum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “encaustum” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.