enjuto

• IPA^(key): /enˈxuto/ [ẽŋˈxu.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -uto
• Syllabification: en‧ju‧to

Inherited from Old Spanish enxuto, from Latin exsūctus, perfect passive participle of exsūgō, from ex + sūgō. Compare Portuguese enxuto, Catalan eixut, Italian asciutto. In pre-literary Spanish, the word likely had the form *eissuito (compare also Old Galician-Portuguese enxoyto, Galician enxoito), and then underwent a change of prefix through influence from enjugar (the same process affecting other Ibero-Romance languages), with the ending being influenced by past participles such as roto, escrito, frito, etc. (as normally the Latin consonant cluster -ct- yields -ch- in Spanish; a form ensucho was attested, and ensuchu is used in Asturian, where it became the irregular past participle of ensugar).^[1]

enjuto (feminine enjuta, masculine plural enjutos, feminine plural enjutas)

1. shriveled
2. dry
3. withered, skinny, skin and bones

• enjugar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

enjuto

1. first-person singular present indicative of enjutar

• “enjuto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024