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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfru.sto/
- Rhymes: -usto
- Hyphenation: frù‧sto
Etymology 1
Alternative form of frustato, perfect passive participle of frustare (“to whip”, “to wear out”), derived from frusta (“whip”), from Latin fūstis (“knobbed stick”).
Participle
frusto (feminine frusta, masculine plural frusti, feminine plural fruste)
- past participle of frustare
Adjective
frusto (feminine frusta, masculine plural frusti, feminine plural fruste)
- (dated) threadbare, worn out
- (figurative) outworn, worn out
Etymology 2
Form of frustare.
Verb
frusto
- first-person singular present indicative of frustare
Etymology 3
From Latin frustum.
Noun
frusto m (plural frusti)
- (archaic) a piece or scrap (of food)
Latin
Noun
frūstō
- dative/ablative singular of frūstum
References
- “frusto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- frusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.