combusto
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin combustus (“burnt”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcombusto (feminine combusta, masculine plural combusti, feminine plural combuste)
- burnt, burned
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 73–75; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- combusto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
editParticiple
editcombustō