combusto
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin combustus (“burnt”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
combusto (feminine combusta, masculine plural combusti, feminine plural combuste)
- burnt, burned
- mid 1300s–mid 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 edit
Further reading edit
- combusto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Participle edit
combustō