vasto

See also: Vasto

Finnish

Verb

vasto

  1. inflection of vastoa:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Latin vastus (empty, vast).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbasto/ [ˈbas̺.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -asto
  • Hyphenation: bas‧to
  • Homophone: basto

Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas)

  1. vast, voluminous

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vastus (empty, vast).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvas.to/
  • Rhymes: -asto
  • Hyphenation: và‧sto

Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasti, feminine plural vaste, superlative vastissimo)

  1. vast
    Synonyms: ampio, esteso

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From vāstus +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

vāstō (present infinitive vāstāre, perfect active vāstāvī, supine vāstātum); first conjugation

  1. to devastate, ravage or lay waste
    Synonyms: ruīnō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, aboleō, occīdō, perdō, exscindō, dēstruō, accīdō, tollō, dīruō, populor, impellō, sepeliō, interimō, perimō, trucīdō
    Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: gastar
  • English: waste[1]
  • French: gâter[2]
  • Italian: guastare
  • Piedmontese: guasté, vasté
  • Portuguese: vastar, gastar
  • Sicilian: vastari
  • Spanish: gastar

Adjective

vāstō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vāstus

References

  • vasto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vasto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vasto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to ravage with fire and sword: omnia ferro ignique, ferro atque igni or ferro flammaque vastare
  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “waste”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Etymology and history of gâter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin vastus (empty, vast).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvas.tu/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈvaʃ.tu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈvas.to/
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -astu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃtu
  • Hyphenation: vas‧to

Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, comparable, comparative mais vasto, superlative o mais vasto or vastíssimo)

  1. vast (very large or wide)

Further reading

  • vasto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

Verb

vasto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of vastar

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vastus (empty, vast).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbasto/ [ˈbas.t̪o]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -asto
  • Syllabification: vas‧to
  • Homophone: basto

Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, superlative vastísimo)

  1. vast

Derived terms

Further reading