resto

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See also: Resto, restó, and restò

English

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Etymology 1

Clipping of restaurant + -o (colloquializing suffix).

Noun

resto (plural restos)

  1. (informal) A restaurant.
    • 2009 January 14, “Drake expands comfort zone”, in Toronto Star:
      For instance, nine out of 10 restos in Toronto may offer Caesar salad, but "it's still about how you make it.
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Etymology 2

Clipping of restoration + -o (colloquializing suffix).

Noun

resto (plural restos)

  1. (informal) A restoration (of an old car or building, etc.).

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

resto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of restar

Esperanto

Etymology

From resti +‎ -o, probably influenced by English rest, Spanish resto, etc.

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  • Rhymes: -esto
  • Hyphenation: res‧to

Noun

resto (accusative singular reston, plural restoj, accusative plural restojn)

  1. rest, remainder

Estonian

Etymology

Clipping of restoran (restaurant).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈresto/,
  • Rhymes: -esto
  • Hyphenation: res‧to

Noun

resto (genitive resto, partitive restot)

  1. (informal) restaurant
    Synonym: restoran

Declension

Declension of resto (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative resto restod
accusative nom.
gen. resto
genitive restode
partitive restot restosid
illative restosse restodesse
inessive restos restodes
elative restost restodest
allative restole restodele
adessive restol restodel
ablative restolt restodelt
translative restoks restodeks
terminative restoni restodeni
essive restona restodena
abessive restota restodeta
comitative restoga restodega

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Clipping of restaurant. The original spelling restau has been altered to resto under the influence of other colloquial nouns in -o.

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Noun

resto m (plural restos)

  1. (colloquial) resto, restaurant

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Galician

Noun

resto m (plural restos)

  1. the rest
  2. (mathematics) remainder
  3. (in the plural) remains

Ido

Pronunciation

Noun

resto (plural resti)

  1. stay (overnight in a place)

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Interlingua

Noun

resto (plural restos)

  1. remainder

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Deverbal from restare +‎ -o.

Noun

resto m (plural resti)

  1. rest, remainder, balance
  2. change, rest
  3. (in the plural) remains (of a body etc.), leftovers (of food), ruins (of a building)
  4. (mathematics) remainder
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Etymology 2

Verb

resto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of restare

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Latin

Etymology

From re- (again) +‎ stō (stand; stay, remain).

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Verb

restō (present infinitive restāre, perfect active restitī or restāvī); first conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive

  1. to stand firm; to stay behind
  2. to remain, survive
  3. to withstand, resist, oppose
    Synonyms: contrādīcō, oppōnō, adversor, obversor, refrāgor, repugnō, recūsō, resistō, officiō, dīvertō, resistō, subsistō, vetō, obstō
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.230:
      quidve, quod in miserō tempore restet, habent?
      Oh, what – that which, in this wretched moment, can help to resist – do they have ?
      (Ovid here recounts the Battle of the Cremera.)
  4. (figuratively) to remain available, to be left over
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.323–324:
      “ hospes / Hoc sōlum nōmen quoniam dē coniuge restat.”
      “ ‘guest’ — Since this the only name remains, from ‘husband.’”

Conjugation

  • Perfect forms like restāvī are occasionally found.

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Descendants

References

  • resto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • resto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • one thing still makes me hesitate: unus mihi restat scrupulus (Ter. Andr. 5. 4. 37) (cf. too religio, sect. XI. 2)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

Deverbal from restar (to be left), from Latin restāre, from re- +‎ stō.

Noun

resto m (plural restos)

  1. (uncountable, usually with article o) the rest (that which remains)
    Synonym: restante
    Duas pessoas sobreviveram, o resto morreu.Two people survived, the rest died.
  2. remainder; leftover (something left behind)
    Synonym: sobra
    Comi um resto de carne.I ate some meat leftovers.
  3. (arithmetic) remainder (amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend)
    O resto de onze dividido por três é dois.The remainder of eleven divided by three is two.
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Etymology 2

Verb

resto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of restar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈresto/
  • Rhymes: -esto
  • Syllabification: res‧to

Etymology 1

Deverbal from restar.

Noun

resto m (plural restos)

  1. rest, remainder
    Synonyms: migajas, sobra
    el resto de mi vidathe rest of my life
  2. (mathematics) remainder
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Etymology 2

Verb

resto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of restar

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