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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin venustus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /veˈnu.sto/
- Rhymes: -usto
- Hyphenation: ve‧nù‧sto
Adjective
venusto (feminine venusta, masculine plural venusti, feminine plural venuste)
- (literary) beautiful in a specifically graceful way
- Synonym: bello
1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 124–126; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:dal destro vedi quel padre vetusto
di Santa Chiesa a cui Cristo le chiavi
raccomandò di questo fior venusto.- On the right you see that ancient father of Holy Church, to whom Christ entrusted the keys of this beautiful flower.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
venustō (present infinitive venustāre, perfect active venustāvī, supine venustātum); first conjugation
- to beautify
Conjugation
Adjective
venustō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of venustus
References
- “venusto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- venusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.