tosto

Borrowed from English toast, French toast, German Toast, Russian тост (tost).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtosto/

tosto (plural tosti)

1. toast, toasting

• tostar (“to toast”)

From Latin tostus, probably from the sense of "drying rapidly". Cognate to French tôt, Occitan and Catalan tost.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔs.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔsto
• Hyphenation: tò‧sto

tosto

1. (archaic) at once, immediately

   Synonyms: presto, rapidamente, subito

   • 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata (Gerusalem Delivered), BUR, page 243, Canto IV, octave 19, lines 1-2:

     Tosto, spiegando in vari lati i vanni, / si furon questi per lo mondo sparti, [...]

     At once, unfolding towards various directions their wings, they were scattered around the whole world.

tosto (feminine tosta, masculine plural tosti, feminine plural toste, superlative tostissimo)

1. (archaic) swift, rapid, hurried

   Synonyms: rapido, svelto, veloce

2. (literary or regional, mostly Southern Italy) hard, tough, firm, hard-boiled, hardheaded, resistant, persistent, resilient, resolute, determined, dogged, sturdy, or rugged

   Synonyms: duro, sodo

   Antonym: mollo

3. (by extension, colloquial) difficult
4. badass

tosto

1. first-person singular present indicative of tostare

• sotto, sotto-

tostō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tostus

tosto

1. first-person singular present indicative of tostar