encaustum

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /enˈkau̯s.tum/, [ɛŋˈkäu̯s̠t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /enˈkau̯s.tum/, [eŋˈkäu̯st̪um]

encaustum n (genitive encaustī); second declension

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

   Near-synonym: ātrāmentum

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• 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
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “encaustum”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.