busta
English edit
Noun edit
busta (plural bustas)
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
busta f
- bust (sculpture)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Irish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto, from Latin būstum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
busta m (genitive singular busta, nominative plural bustaí)
- bust (sculpture)
Declension edit
Declension of busta
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
busta | bhusta | mbusta |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “busta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “busta” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “busta” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French boiste, whence French boîte (“box”). From Medieval Latin buxida, inflected form derived from Latin buxētum (“boxwood plantation”), from Latin buxus (“boxwood”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
busta f (plural buste)
Derived terms edit
- busta paga (“payslip”)
- bustarella (“bribe”)
- bustina (“small envelope, sachet”)
- imbustare (verb)
Interjection edit
busta
- (Rome, colloquial, soccer) said by someone after he's nutmegged someone (made the ball pass between their legs)
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Latin edit
Noun edit
busta
References edit
- busta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Romanian edit
Adverb edit
busta
- Alternative form of buzna