busto

See also: Busto

English

Etymology

From Italian busto.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌstəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌstoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ʌstəʊ

Noun

busto (plural bustos or bustoes)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• BOTUS, bouts, tsubo

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian busto, from Latin bustum (“burial ground, tomb”). Compare French buste, Polish biust, Russian бюст (bjust), German Büste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbusto]
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: bus‧to

Noun

busto (accusative singular buston, plural bustoj, accusative plural bustojn)

1. (sculpture) bust

Galician

Etymology

From Celtiberian boustom, from Proto-Celtic *bow- (“cow”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws) and a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”); documented in local Latin throughout the Middle Ages. Cognate with Sanskrit गोष्ठ (goṣṭha, “cow-pen”). Compare also Welsh bustach (“bullock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbusto̝/

Noun

busto m (plural bustos)

1. (archaic) enclosed pasture, usually in the hills, on which livestock is kept for feeding
2. (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

Derived terms

• Besteburiz
• Besterrexulfe
• Bistipoi
• Bistixoán
• Bistulfe
• Bustelo
• Bustelos
• Bustiguillade
• Busto
• Bustofreán
• Bustofrío
• Bustoseco

 

References

• 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

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbusto/

Noun

busto (plural busti)

1. (human anatomy) bust, the head and the upper section of the torso
2. (sculpture) bust, sculpture of the head and the upper section of the torso

Italian

Etymology

From Latin būstum (“burial mound, tomb”). The semantic shift from “tomb” to “bust” happened via the meaning of “sepulchral statue”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.sto/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: bù‧sto

Noun

busto m (plural busti)

1. (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, [...]

2. (by extension, obsolete) cadaver, corpse
3. (sculpture) bust
4. (by extension, anatomy) torso
5. (by extension) corset, girdle

   Synonym: guaina

Derived terms

• imbusto (obsolete)
• mezzobusto

Descendants

• → French: buste
  • → Danish: buste
  • → Polish: biust
  • → Russian: бюст (bjust)
    • → Georgian: ბიუსტი (biusṭi)

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbus.toː/, [ˈbʊs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbus.to/, [ˈbust̪o]

Noun

bustō

1. dative/ablative singular of bustum

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbus.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbus.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈbuʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbus.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbuʃ.tu/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ustu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃtu
• Hyphenation: bus‧to

Noun

busto m (plural bustos)

1. bust (sculptural portrayal of a person’s head and shoulders)
2. bust (breasts and upper thorax of a woman)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian busto, from Latin bustum (literally “burned body”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbusto/ [ˈbus.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -usto
• Syllabification: bus‧to

Noun

busto m (plural bustos)

1. (sculpture) bust
2. (anatomy) bust

Further reading

• “busto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014