santo

Borrowed from Spanish santo.

santo (plural santos)

1. (art) A wooden or ivory statue of a saint, angel or other religious figure, found in Spain and former Spanish colonies.
   • 1972, Shirley Glubok, The Art of the Spanish in the United States and Puerto Rico:

     A santo may get a new coat of paint on its feast day or at Christmas. Or sometimes, when a prayer has been granted, a Puerto Rican repays his santo with a fresh coat of paint.

• vin santo, Vin Santo

• natos, tonas, sat on, Stano, aston, Aston, Atons, Tanos

santo

1. neuter of santu

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/ [ˈs̺an̪.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -anto
• Hyphenation: san‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas)

1. holy, sacred

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. saint

• “santo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

• santu (nonstandard)

Borrowed from Portuguese santo (“male saint”), from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/ [ˈsan̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -anto
• Syllabification: san‧to

santo m (feminine santa)

1. (Christianity) saint

• “santo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Derived from Latin sānctus.

santo

1. holy

• san (Saint, before a consonant (except preconsonantal s))
• sant' (Saint, before a vowel)
• S. (Saint, abbreviation)

Derived from Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.to/
• Rhymes: -anto
• Hyphenation: sàn‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santi, feminine plural sante, superlative santissimo)

1. holy

santo m (plural santi, feminine santa)

1. saint
2. (before a name of a saint or in place names, often capitalized) Saint

• beato
• sacro

• santo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• stano, stanò, stona

Inherited from Old Spanish santo, sancto, from Latin sānctus.

santo (Hebrew spelling סאנטו)^[1]

1. holy (godly)

   Synonyms: kadosh, sagrado

   Hyponym: santisimo

santo m (Hebrew spelling סאנטו, feminine santa)^[1]

1. male saint
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[1], Nur Afakot, page 28:

     Este es un kuento atado a una eksperiensa emosional sovrenatural, ke sea una eksperiensa emosional sovrenatural, ke sea una eksperiensa emosional relijioza personal, komo por exemplo un kuento sovre un santo sovrenatural o sovre un amahamiento mirakolozo, ke se trate de una eksperiensia emosional de un enkontro kon un ser sovrenatural o de un ser de otro mundo, komo un guerko o un fantazma.

     This is an account connected to an emotional supernatural experience, whether it be an emotional supernatural experience, or a personal emotional religious experience, as for example an account about a supernatural saint or about a miracle cure, it is about an emotional experience from an encounter with a supernatural being or a being from another world, like a demon or a ghost.

• sakro

Inherited from Latin sanctus.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈsandə], (in sandhi) [-u]
  • (feminine) IPA^(key): [ˈsandə], (in sandhi) [-a]

santo (feminine singular santa, plural sante)

1. holy

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 800: “la pila dell'acqua santa” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, pages 80, 82

• san (before consonants)
• sãto, sancto

Inherited from Latin sānctus, from Proto-Italic *sanktos, from *sankjō, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-.

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. holy; sacred

   Synonym: sagrado

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. (Catholicism) saint

• Fala: santu
• Galician: santo
• Portuguese: santo, sancto (obsolete)
  • → Kadiwéu: xaanto
  • → Nheengatu: santu
  • → Tetum: santu

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “san ~ santo¹, santa”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “santo²”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “santo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “santo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• san, sancto, sant, santi

Inherited from Latin sānctus, from Proto-Italic *sanktos, from *sankjō, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-.

santo (feminine santa)

1. (religion) sacred; consecrated; holy; godly
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 78v. col. 2.:

     Vn poco adelant apar de orient. es elaltar de ſanta trinjdat o la uera .☩. ſolie eſtar. todo es enla egleſia. dentro en el ſepulcro

     A little toward the east is the altar of the Holy Trinity, where the True Cross used to be. Everything is in the church, inside the sepulcher.

• Ladino: santo, סאנטו
• Spanish: santo
  • Tagalog: santo

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “santo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 457

santo

1. nominative singular/plural masculine of santa, which is present active participle of atthi (“to be”)
2. nominative singular masculine of santa (“calm”), which is past participle of sammati (“to be calmed”)
3. nominative singular masculine of santa (“tired”), which is past participle of sammati (“to be tired”)

• sancto (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• Homophone: Santo
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
• Hyphenation: san‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas, comparable, comparative mais santo, superlative o mais santo or santíssimo, diminutive santinho)

1. holy, sacred
   1. dedicated to a religious purpose or a god; religious

      Synonym: religioso

      Antonyms: laico, secular

   2. flawless from a religious point of view

      Synonyms: perfeito, puro

   3. designed or exalted by a divine sanction; venerable

      Synonyms: sagrado, sacro, venerável

   4. (of a day) during which one must dedicate himself to religion, rather than work
   5. saintly; relating to saints
2. (figuratively) pure, immaculate, undefiled
   1. innocent

      Synonyms: puro, inocente

      Antonyms: impuro, pecador, réprobo

   2. chaste

      Synonyms: puro, casto, imaculado

      Antonyms: impuro, libidinoso

• (antonym(s) of “flawless from a religious point of view”): impuro, pecador, réprobo

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) someone who has been formally canonised by the Catholic Church
2. (Candomblé, Afro-Brazilian religion) orisha (deities in the Yoruba religion)
3. saint (a virtuous or holy person)
4. an extremely kind individual

• → Kadiwéu: xaanto
• → Nheengatu: santu
• → Tetum: santu

• “santo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “santo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• sancto (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish santo, sancto, from Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/ [ˈsãn̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -anto
• Syllabification: san‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas, superlative santísimo)

1. holy, godly

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. male saint
2. name day

   Synonym: onomástica

• sacro
• sagrado

• “santo”, 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

• Santo
• Sto. — abbreviation

Borrowed from Spanish santo, from Old Spanish sancto, from Latin sānctus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/ [ˈsan̪.t̪o], /sanˈto/ [sɐn̪ˈt̪o]
• Rhymes: -anto, -o
• Syllabification: san‧to

santo or santó (feminine santa, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. saint (especially a male saint)
2. image or statue of a saint

santo or santó (feminine santa, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. referring to an important figure, item, or event which had a masculine gender in Spanish: holy; sacred (used in certain expressions)

   Synonym: banal

• “santo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• tanso