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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /enˈxuto/
- Rhymes: -uto
- Syllabification: en‧ju‧to
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish enxuto, from Latin exsūctus, perfect passive participle of exsūgō, from ex + sūgō. Compare Portuguese enxuto, Catalan eixut, Italian asciutto. In pre-literary Spanish, the word likely had the form *eissuito (compare also Old Galician-Portuguese enxoyto, Galician enxoito), and then underwent a change of prefix through influence from enjugar (the same process affecting other Ibero-Romance languages), with the ending being influenced by past participles such as roto, escrito, frito, etc. (as normally the Latin consonant cluster -ct- yields -ch- in Spanish; a form ensucho was attested, and ensuchu is used in Asturian, where it became the irregular past participle of ensugar).[1]
Adjective
enjuto (feminine enjuta, masculine plural enjutos, feminine plural enjutas)
- shriveled
- dry
- withered, skinny, skin and bones
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
enjuto
- first-person singular present indicative of enjutar
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