different between basto vs busto

English

Etymology

From Spanish basto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bæst??/

Noun

basto

1. The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.

   • Spadillio first, unconquerable Lord !
     Let off two captive trumps, and swept the board.
     As many more Manillio forc'd to yield,
     And march'd a victor from the verdant field.
     Him Basto follow'd, but his fate more hard
     Gain'd but one trump and one Plebeian card […]

Anagrams

• boast, boats, sabot

Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish basto.

Noun

basto m (plural bastos)

1. (playing cards) Alternative form of bastó

Further reading

• “bastos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Esperanto

Noun

basto (accusative singular baston, plural bastoj, accusative plural bastojn)

1. bast

Italian

Etymology

From Latin bastum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bas.to/
• Rhymes: -asto
• Hyphenation: ba?sto

Noun

basto m (plural basti)

1. load
2. burden
3. packsaddle (A saddle designed to secure and carry goods on the back of an animal)

Verb

basto

1. first-person singular present of bastare

Portuguese

Verb

basto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of bastar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?basto/, [?bas.t?o]
• Homophone: vasto
• Hyphenation: bas?to

Etymology 1

Noun

basto m (plural bastos)

1. packsaddle, saddle pad
2. (card games) clubs

See also

Etymology 2

From bastar.

Adjective

basto (feminine basta, masculine plural bastos, feminine plural bastas)

1. rough, coarse
2. gross
3. homespun

Verb

basto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of bastar.

Further reading

• “basto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Italian busto.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?st??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?sto?/
• Rhymes: -?st??

Noun

busto (plural bustos or bustoes)

1. (art, now rare) A bust. [from 17th c.]
   • 1719, Elias Ashmole, The Antiquities of Berkshire

     The Entrance to the Royal Apartment is through a Vestibule, supported by Pillars, with some antick Bustoes in the Niches […]

   • 1753, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 13:

     The Busto's he fix'd on were the Caracalla and the Cicero in the Gallery which I recommended as one of the best heads in the Gallery.

Anagrams

• BOTUS, bouts, tsubo

Galician

Etymology

From Celtiberian boustom, from Proto-Celtic *bow- (“cow”) (from Proto-Indo-European *g??ws) and a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand”); documented in local Latin throughout the Middle Ages. Cognate with Sanskrit ????? (go??ha, “cow-pen”). Compare also Welsh bustach (“bullock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?busto?/

Noun

busto m (plural bustos)

1. (archaic) Enclosed pasture, usually in the hills, on which livestock is kept for feeding.
2. (obsolete) A herd of cattle.
   • 1300, R. Martínez López (ed. ), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 277:

     et aly ouvo moytas gréés de ouellas et bustos de vacas

     and there were many flocks of sheep and many herds of cows

Derived terms

References

• “busto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “busto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “busto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?busto/

Noun

busto (plural busti)

1. (human anatomy) bust, the head and the upper section of the torso
2. (sculpture) bust, sculpture of the head and the upper section of the torso

Italian

Etymology

From Latin b?stum (“burial mound, tomb”). The semantic shift from “tomb” to “bust” happened via the meaning of “sepulchral statue”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bus.to/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: bù?sto

Noun

busto m (plural busti)

1. (obsolete) tomb, grave
   • 1372 ca., Giovanni Boccaccio, Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri (Il comento sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri, Tomo II, Ig. Moutier (1831), page 280):

     Chiamansi ancora i sepolcri busti, e questi son detti da' corpi combusti, [...]

     The sepulchres are still called tombs, so called for the cremated bodies, [...]

2. (by extension, obsolete) cadaver, corpse
3. (sculpture) bust
4. (by extension, anatomy) torso
5. (by extension) corset, girdle

   Synonym: guaina

Derived terms

• imbusto (obsolete)
• mezzobusto

Descendants

• ? French: buste
  • ? Danish: buste
  • ? Polish: biust

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bus.to?/, [?b?s?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bus.to/, [?bust??]

Noun

bust?

1. dative/ablative singular of bustum

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?bustu/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?bu?tu/
• Hyphenation: bus?to

Noun

busto m (plural bustos)

1. bust (sculptural portrayal of a person’s head and shoulders)
2. bust (breasts and upper thorax of a woman)

Spanish

Etymology

From Italian busto, from Latin bustum (literally “burned body”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?busto/, [?bus.t?o]
• Hyphenation: bus?to

Noun

busto m (plural bustos)

1. (sculpture) bust
2. (anatomy) bust