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Basque
Etymology
Uncertain. At least two proposals exist:
- Borrowed from Spanish asno or Latin asinus, phonetically improbable.
- From hartz (“bear”) + -to (diminutive suffix), phonetically impeccable, but semantically strange.
If the second is correct, then may be related to Aquitanian *asto, found in Asto Ilunno.
Pronunciation
Noun
asto anim
- donkey
Declension
References
Further reading
Franco-Provençal
Verb
asto (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)
- Alternative form of achetar (“to buy”) documented in the following location(s): Belleroche
Javanese
Romanization
asto
- nonstandard spelling of asta, romanization of ꦲꦱ꧀ꦠ
Latin
Etymology
From ad- + stō.
Pronunciation
Verb
astō (present infinitive astāre, perfect active astitī); first conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive
- to stand at, on, by
- Synonym: stō
- to be present
- Synonyms: subsum, adsum, stō, exstō
- Antonym: desum
- to stand near, stand close to
- Synonyms: immineō, contingō, īnstō
- Antonyms: dissideō, distō
- to be standing, upright
- to assist
Conjugation
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References
- asto in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- “asto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “asto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "asto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- asto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.