vastus

English

Etymology

From Latin vastus (“vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous”). Doublet of vast.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvæs.təs/

Noun

vastus (plural vasti)

1. (anatomy) One of the great muscles upon the front of the thigh.

Derived terms

• vastus externus
• vastus intermedius
• vastus lateralis
• vastus medialis

Anagrams

• ustavs

Estonian

Noun

vastus (genitive vastuse, partitive vastust)

1. answer, response

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vastus. Equivalent to vasta- +‎ -us.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑstus/,
• Rhymes: -ɑstus
• Syllabification^(key): vas‧tus

Noun

vastus

1. resistor (electronic component)
2. resistance (the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist)
3. resistance (in physics, force that tends to oppose motion)
4. resistance (in physics, electrical resistance)
5. drag (resistance of air or other fluid to something moving in it)
6. opposition (opposing side in competition)
7. element (short form of heating element)
8. (slang, gaming) enemy

   Synonyms: vihollinen, (slang) vihu

Declension

Synonyms

• (drag): ilmanvastus (of air), veden vastus (of water); väliaineen vastus (general)
• (opposition): vastustaja

Derived terms

Further reading

• “vastus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wāstos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *wāstos (“empty”) and Proto-Germanic *wōstaz (whence English waste, German Wüste) and related to Latin vānus and vacō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aːs.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvas.tus/,

Note: the length of the root vowel is not certain, but is surmised to be long on the basis of the Celtic and Germanic cognate terms.

Adjective

vāstus (feminine vāsta, neuter vāstum, comparative vāstior, superlative vāstissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. (literally) Empty, unoccupied, i.e. waste, desert.
   1. (figurative) Uncultivated, unpolished, rude, rough, harsh.
2. Desolate, deserted, made lonely.
3. Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, devastated, destroyed.
4. Vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous. (of size)

   Synonyms: impēnsus, immēnsus, ingēns, immānis

   1. Immense, enormous, prodigious, vast. (of degree)
   2. (figurative) Insatiable.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• vāstitās
• vāstitiēs
• vāstō

Descendants

References

• “vastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vastus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.