Rusticate

Rusticate (pronounced ruhs-ti-keyt)

(1) To go to the country; to stay or sojourn in the country; to banish or retire to the country

(2) To make rustic, as persons or manners; to make or become rustic in style, behaviour etc.

(3) In architecture, to finish an exterior wall with large blocks of masonry that are separated by deep joints and decorated with a bold, usually textured, design.

(4) Temporarily to send down a student from a university as punishment (historic UK use).

(5) By extension, to sack a politician from office because of misbehavior or some scandal.

1650–1660: From the Latin rūsticātus, past participle of rūsticārī (to live in the country), the construct being rūstic(us) (rustic + -ātus); ultimate root was rūs (the country) which, like rūsticus was derived from the Proto-Italic rowestikos. The Classical Latin suffix –ātus (feminine -āta, neuter -ātum) is from the Proto-Italic -ātos, from the primitive Indo-European -eh₂tos and is listed by scholars as a "pseudo-participle" possibly related to -tus, though similar formations in other Indo-European languages indicate it was distinct from it by Indo-European times.  The suffix –ate was used to form adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or a quality and was one of Latin’s perfect passive participle suffixes of first conjugation verbs (-ātus, -āta & -ātum) which, in Middle English was written -at.  Rusticate is a verb, rusticator & rustication are nouns and rusticated & rusticating are adjectives & verbs; the usual noun plural is rusticators.

Rusticated by nature (and sometimes by circumstances): Barnaby Joyce (b 1967; thrice (between local difficulties) deputy prime minister of Australia 2016-2022).