Italian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin adustus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /aˈdu.sto/
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Hyphenation: a‧dù‧sto

Adjective edit

adusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adusti, feminine plural aduste)

  1. scorched; parched (of land)
    • 1823, Francesco M. Franceschinis, L’Atenaide, volume 2, tipografia della Minerva, page 6:
      Rombo d’aria improvviso la percuote, / E vapor rosso copre i campi adusti;
      A roar in the air strikes suddenly, / And red vapour covers the scorched fields;
  2. wizened (lean and wrinkled by age or illness)
    • 2009, Lev Tolstoy, translated by Loretta Loi, Guerra e pace, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, page 324:
      «È il diavolo che li ha portati!» pensava, mentre Tichon l’aiutava a infilare la camicia da notte sul suo corpo adusto di vecchio, coperto sul petto di peli grigi.
      “It is the devil who took them!” he though, while Tichon helped him put on a nightgown on his old, wizened body, covered by grey hair on the chest.

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Latin edit

Participle edit

adustō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of adustus

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin adustus.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /aˈdusto/ [aˈð̞us.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Syllabification: a‧dus‧to

Adjective edit

adusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adustos, feminine plural adustas)

  1. surly, dour (of a person)
  2. austere

Further reading edit