venusto
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venusto (feminine venusta, masculine plural venusti, feminine plural venuste)
- (literary) beautiful in a specifically graceful way
- Synonym: bello
- c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven][1], lines 124–126; 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:
- dal destro vedi quel padre vetusto
di Santa Chiesa a cui Cristo le chiavi
raccomandò di questo fior venusto.- On the right you see that ancient father of Holy Church, to whom Christ entrusted the keys of this beautiful flower.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯eˈnus.toː/, [u̯ɛˈnʊs̠t̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈnus.to/, [veˈnust̪o]
Verb edit
venustō (present infinitive venustāre, perfect active venustāvī, supine venustātum); first conjugation
- to beautify
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venustō
References edit
- “venusto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- venusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.