vetusto

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin vetustus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /veˈtu.sto/
Rhymes: -usto
Hyphenation: ve‧tù‧sto

Adjective

vetusto (feminine vetusta, masculine plural vetusti, feminine plural vetuste)

(literary) ancient, old
- c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 124–126; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd 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.

Related terms

Latin

Adjective

vetustō

dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vetustus

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vetustus (“ancient”), from vetus (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *wétos (“year”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /veˈtus.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /veˈtuʃ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /veˈtus.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨˈtuʃ.tu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨˈtuʃ.tu/

Adjective

vetusto (feminine vetusta, masculine plural vetustos, feminine plural vetustas)

ancient
Synonyms: antigo, velho, arcaico

Antonyms: novo, recente
whose age must be respected
dilapidated by age
Synonym: desgastado
antiquated
Synonyms: antiquado, ultrapassado, obsoleto

Antonyms: moderno, atual

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vetustus.

Adjective

vetusto (feminine vetusta, masculine plural vetustos, feminine plural vetustas)

old, ancient, age-old

Derived terms

vetustez

See also

Further reading

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

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