tosto
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English toast, French toast, German Toast, Russian тост (tost).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tosto (plural tosti)
Derived terms edit
- tostar (“to toast”)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin tostus, probably from the sense of "drying rapidly". Cognate to French tôt, Occitan and Catalan tost.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
tosto
- (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.
Adjective edit
tosto (feminine tosta, masculine plural tosti, feminine plural toste, superlative tostissimo)
- (archaic) swift, rapid, hurried
- (literary or regional, mostly Southern Italy) hard, tough, firm, hard-boiled, hardheaded, resistant, persistent, resilient, resolute, determined, dogged, sturdy, or rugged
- (by extension, colloquial) difficult
- badass
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tosto
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Participle edit
tostō
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tosto