restio

See also: Restio

English

Noun

restio (plural restios)

1. (botany) Any member of the family Restionaceae of perennial, evergreen, rush-like flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere.

Anagrams

• storie, triose, Storie, tiroes, sortie, tories, oister, œstri, Sortie, oestri, roesti, Tories

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin *restivus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reˈsti.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: re‧stì‧o

Adjective

restio (feminine restia, masculine plural restii, feminine plural restie)

1. reluctant, unwilling

Derived terms

• restiamente

Anagrams

• esorti, istero-, ortesi, riteso, roseti, sorite, storie, tesori

Latin

Etymology

From restis (“rope”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈres.ti.oː/, [ˈrɛs̠t̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈres.ti.o/, [ˈrɛst̪io]

Noun

restiō m (genitive restiōnis); third declension

1. ropemaker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	restiō	restiōnēs
genitive	restiōnis	restiōnum
dative	restiōnī	restiōnibus
accusative	restiōnem	restiōnēs
ablative	restiōne	restiōnibus
vocative	restiō	restiōnēs

Synonyms

• restiārius

References

• “restio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• restio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.