adusto

Italian

FWOTD – 14 March 2013

Etymology

From Latin adustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdu.sto/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: a‧dù‧sto

Adjective

adusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adusti, feminine plural aduste)

1. (of land) scorched; parched
   • 1823, Francesco M. Franceschinis, L’Atenaide, volume 2, tipografia della Minerva, page 6:

     Rombo d’aria improvviso la percuote, / E vapor rosso copre i campi adusti;

     A roar in the air strikes suddenly, / And red vapour covers the scorched fields;

2. wizened (lean and wrinkled by age or illness)
   • 2009, Lev Tolstoy, Loretta Loi (translator), Guerra e pace, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, page 324:

     «È il diavolo che li ha portati!» pensava, mentre Tichon l’aiutava a infilare la camicia da notte sul suo corpo adusto di vecchio, coperto sul petto di peli grigi.

     “It is the devil who took them!” he though, while Tichon helped him put on a nightgown on his old, wizened body, covered by grey hair on the chest.

Anagrams

• sudato

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) adustō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of adustus

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin adustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdusto/ [aˈð̞us.t̪o]

Adjective

adusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adustos, feminine plural adustas)

1. surly, dour (of a person)
2. austere

Further reading

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