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Finnish
Verb
vasto
- inflection of vastoa:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas)
- vast, voluminous
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasti, feminine plural vaste, superlative vastissimo)
- vast
- Synonyms: ampio, esteso
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From vāstus + -ō.
Pronunciation
Verb
vāstō (present infinitive vāstāre, perfect active vāstāvī, supine vāstātum); first conjugation
- to devastate, ravage or lay waste
- Synonyms: ruīnō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, aboleō, occīdō, perdō, exscindō, dēstruō, accīdō, tollō, dīruō, populor, impellō, sepeliō, interimō, perimō, trucīdō
- Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor
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Descendants
Adjective
vāstō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vāstus
References
- “vasto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vasto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vasto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to ravage with fire and sword: omnia ferro ignique, ferro atque igni or ferro flammaque vastare
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -astu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃtu
- Hyphenation: vas‧to
Adjective
vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, comparable, comparative mais vasto, superlative o mais vasto or vastíssimo)
- vast (very large or wide)
Further reading
- “vasto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Etymology 2
Verb
vasto
- first-person singular present indicative of vastar
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, superlative vastísimo)
- vast
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