vasto

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Finnish

Verb

vasto

  1. inflection of vastoa:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin vastus (empty, vast).

Pronunciation

Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas)

  1. vast, voluminous

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vastus (empty, vast).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvas.to/
  • Rhymes: -asto
  • Hyphenation: và‧sto

Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasti, feminine plural vaste, superlative vastissimo)

  1. vast
    Synonyms: ampio, esteso

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Latin

Etymology

From vāstus +‎ .

Pronunciation

Verb

vāstō (present infinitive vāstāre, perfect active vāstāvī, supine vāstātum); first conjugation

  1. 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

  1. 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
  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “waste”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Etymology and history of gâter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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)

  1. 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

  1. 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)

  1. vast

Derived terms

Further reading