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Italian
Etymology
From Latin adustus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈdu.sto/
- Rhymes: -usto
- Hyphenation: a‧dù‧sto
Adjective
adusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adusti, feminine plural aduste)
- scorched; parched (of land)
- 1823, Francesco M. Franceschinis, L’Atenaide, volume 2, tipografia della Minerva, page 6:
Rombo d’aria improvviso la percuote, / E vapor rosso copre i campi adusti;- A roar in the air strikes suddenly, / And red vapour covers the scorched fields;
- wizened (lean and wrinkled by age or illness)
2009, Lev Tolstoy, translated by Loretta Loi, Guerra e pace, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, page 324:«È il diavolo che li ha portati!» pensava, mentre Tichon l’aiutava a infilare la camicia da notte sul suo corpo adusto di vecchio, coperto sul petto di peli grigi.- “It is the devil who took them!” he though, while Tichon helped him put on a nightgown on his old, wizened body, covered by grey hair on the chest.
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Latin
Participle
adustō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of adustus
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adustus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈdusto/
- Rhymes: -usto
- Syllabification: a‧dus‧to
Adjective
adusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adustos, feminine plural adustas)
- surly, dour (of a person)
- austere
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