busto
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editbusto (plural bustos or bustoes)
- (art, now rare) A bust. [from 17th c.]
- 1719, Elias Ashmole, The Antiquities of Berkshire:
- The Entrance to the Royal Apartment is through a Vestibule, supported by Pillars, with some antick Bustoes in the Niches […]
- 1753, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 13:
- The Busto's he fix'd on were the Caracalla and the Cicero in the Gallery which I recommended as one of the best heads in the Gallery.
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editBorrowed from Italian busto, from Latin bustum (“burial ground, tomb”). Compare French buste, Polish biust, Russian бюст (bjust), German Büste.
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editbusto (accusative singular buston, plural bustoj, accusative plural bustojn)
Galician
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editFrom Celtiberian boustom, from Proto-Celtic *bow- (“cow”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws) and a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”);[1][2] documented in local Latin throughout the Middle Ages.[3] Cognate with Sanskrit गोष्ठ (goṣṭha, “cow-pen”). Compare also Welsh bustach (“bullock”).
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editbusto m (plural bustos)
- (archaic) enclosed pasture, usually in the hills, on which livestock is kept for feeding
- (obsolete) a herd of cattle
- 1300, R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 277:
- et aly ouvo moytas gréés de ouellas et bustos de vacas
- and there were many flocks of sheep and many herds of cows
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edit- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “busto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “busto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “busto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ Julián Santano Moreno, "Celtibérico boustom, iberorromance busto, “pastizal, vacada” y bosta “boñiga”", Nouvelle Revue d’Onomastique, n° 56, 2014, p. 227-262.
- ^ García Trabazo, José Virgilio (2016) “Prelatin Toponymy of Asturies: a critical review in a historical-comparative perspective”, in Lletres Asturianes[1], number 115, retrieved 14 June 2018, pages 51-71
- ^ "busto" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.
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editbusto (plural busti)
Italian
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editFrom Latin būstum (“burial mound, tomb”). The semantic shift from “tomb” to “bust” happened via the meaning of “sepulchral statue”.
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editbusto m (plural busti)
- (obsolete) tomb, grave
- 1372 ca., Giovanni Boccaccio, Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri (Il comento sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri, Tomo II, Ig. Moutier (1831), page 280):
- Chiamansi ancora i sepolcri busti, e questi son detti da' corpi combusti, [...]
- The sepulchres are still called tombs, so called for the cremated bodies, [...]
- 1372 ca., Giovanni Boccaccio, Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri (Il comento sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri, Tomo II, Ig. Moutier (1831), page 280):
- (by extension, obsolete) cadaver, corpse
- (sculpture) bust
- (by extension, anatomy) torso
- (by extension) corset, girdle
- Synonym: guaina
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edit- imbusto (obsolete)
- mezzobusto
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editLatin
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edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbus.toː/, [ˈbʊs̠t̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbus.to/, [ˈbust̪o]
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editbustō
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editbusto m (plural bustos)
Spanish
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editBorrowed from Italian busto, from Latin bustum (literally “burned body”).
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editbusto m (plural bustos)
Further reading
edit- “busto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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