santo

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From Spanish santo.

santo (plural santos)

1. (art) A wooden or ivory statue of a saint, angel or other religious figure, found in Spain and former Spanish colonies.
   • 1972, Shirley Glubok, The Art of the Spanish in the United States and Puerto Rico:

     A santo may get a new coat of paint on its feast day or at Christmas. Or sometimes, when a prayer has been granted, a Puerto Rican repays his santo with a fresh coat of paint.

• vin santo, Vin Santo

• natos, tonas, sat on, Stano, aston, Aston, Atons, Tanos

santo

1. neuter of santu

Galician Wikipedia has an article on:

santo

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From Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/
• Rhymes: -anto

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas)

1. holy, sacred

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. saint

• “santo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

santo

Wikipedia ^id

• santu (nonstandard)

Borrowed from Portuguese santo (“male saint”), from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.tɔ/
• Rhymes: -tɔ
• Hyphenation: san‧to

santo m (feminine santa)

1. (Christianity) saint

• “santo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin sānctus.

santo

1. holy

• san (Saint, before a consonant (except preconsonantal s))
• sant' (Saint, before a vowel)
• S. (Saint, abbreviation)

From Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.to/
• Rhymes: -anto
• Hyphenation: sàn‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santi, feminine plural sante, superlative santissimo)

1. holy

santo m (plural santi, feminine santa)

1. saint
2. (before a name of a saint or in place names, often capitalized) Saint

• beato
• sacro

• santo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• stano, stanò, stona

Inherited from Latin sānctus.

santo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סאנטו)^[1]

1. holy (godly)

   Synonyms: kadosh, sagrado

   Hyponym: santisimo

santo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סאנטו, feminine santa)^[1]

1. male saint

• sakro

Inherited from Latin sanctus.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): , (in sandhi)
  • (feminine) IPA^(key): , (in sandhi)

santo (feminine singular santa, plural sante)

1. holy

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 800: “la pila dell'acqua santa” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, pages 80, 82

• san (before consonants)
• sãto, sancto

Inherited from Latin sānctus, from Proto-Italic *sanktos, from *sankjō, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-.

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. holy; sacred

   Synonym: sagrado

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. (Catholicism) saint

• Fala: santu
• Galician: santo
• Portuguese: santo, sancto (obsolete)
  • → Kadiwéu: xaanto
  • → Nheengatu: santu
  • → Tetum: santu

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “san ~ santo¹, santa”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “santo²”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “santo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “santo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

santo

1. nominative singular/plural masculine of santa, which is present active participle of atthi (“to be”)
2. nominative singular masculine of santa (“calm”), which is past participle of sammati (“to be calmed”)
3. nominative singular masculine of santa (“tired”), which is past participle of sammati (“to be tired”)

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

santo

Wikipedia ^pt

• sancto (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• Homophone: Santo
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
• Hyphenation: san‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas, comparable, comparative mais santo, superlative o mais santo or santíssimo, diminutive santinho)

1. holy, sacred
   1. dedicated to a religious purpose or a god; religious

      Synonym: religioso

      Antonyms: laico, secular

   2. flawless from a religious point of view

      Synonyms: perfeito, puro

   3. designed or exalted by a divine sanction; venerable

      Synonyms: sagrado, sacro, venerável

   4. (of a day) during which one must dedicate himself to religion, rather than work
   5. saintly; relating to saints
2. (figuratively) pure, immaculate, undefiled
   1. innocent

      Synonyms: puro, inocente

      Antonyms: impuro, pecador, réprobo

   2. chaste

      Synonyms: puro, casto, imaculado

      Antonyms: impuro, libidinoso

• (antonym(s) of “flawless from a religious point of view”): impuro, pecador, réprobo

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) someone who has been formally canonised by the Catholic Church
2. (Candomblé, Afro-Brazilian religion) orisha (deities in the Yoruba religion)
3. saint (a virtuous or holy person)
4. an extremely kind individual

• → Kadiwéu: xaanto
• → Nheengatu: santu
• → Tetum: santu

• “santo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “santo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

• sancto (obsolete)

From earlier sancto, from Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -anto
• Syllabification: san‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas, superlative santísimo)

1. holy, godly

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

santo

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santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. male saint
2. name day

   Synonym: onomástica

• sacro
• sagrado

• “santo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• Santo
• Sto. — abbreviation

Borrowed from Spanish santo, from Old Spanish sancto, from Latin sānctus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/ , /sanˈto/
• Rhymes: -anto, -o
• Syllabification: san‧to

santo or santó (feminine santa, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. saint (especially a male saint)
2. image or statue of a saint

santo or santó (feminine santa, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. referring to an important figure, item, or event which had a masculine gender in Spanish: holy; sacred (used in certain expressions)

   Synonym: banal

• “santo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• tanso