different between susto vs busto

English

Noun

susto (uncountable)

1. An illness in Latin American cultures, a condition of fear and chronic somatic suffering stemming from one's own or others' emotional trauma.

Anagrams

• SOTUs, ousts

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from sustar, from Latin subst?re, or less likely from surrectus. Compare Spanish susto.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?su?.tu/
• Hyphenation: sus?to

Noun

susto m (plural sustos)

1. fright, scare.
2. fear, terror.

Related terms

• assustar
• sustar

Verb

susto

1. first-person singular present indicative of sustar

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Several theories exist. Possibly an expressive creation, or from a verb *sustar, from Latin suscit?re (though this is unlikely), or perhaps from subst?re. Compare Portuguese susto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?susto/, [?sus.t?o]

Noun

susto m (plural sustos)

1. fright

Derived terms

• asustar

References

Further reading

• “susto” 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