busto

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian

Noun

busto (plural bustos or bustoes)

  1. (archaic) A bust; a statue.
    • 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 […]

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Galician

Etymology

From Celtiberian boustom, from Proto-Celtic *bow- (“cow”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws) and a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”);[1][2] documented in local Latin throughout the Middle Ages.[3] Cognate with Sanskrit गोष्ठ (goṣṭha, “cow-pen”). Compare also Welsh bustach (“bullock”).

Pronunciation

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, 2006–2018.
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  1. ^ Julián Santano Moreno, "Celtibérico boustom, iberorromance busto, “pastizal, vacada” y bosta “boñiga”", Nouvelle Revue d’Onomastique, n° 56, 2014, p. 227-262.
  2. ^ Lua error in Module:quote at line 884: |date= should contain a full date (year, month, day of month); use |year= for year
  3. ^ "busto" in Gallaeciae Monumenta Historica.

Ido

Noun

busto (plural busti)

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

Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin būstum (“burial mound, tomb”). The semantic shift from “tomb” to “bust” happened via the meaning of “sepulchral statue”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbus.to/, [ˈbus̪t̪o]
  • 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

Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) bustō

  1. dative/ablative singular of bustum

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "BR" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA(key): /ˈbustu/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "PT" is not valid. See WT:LOL. IPA(key): /ˈbuʃtu/
  • Hyphenation: bus‧to

Noun

busto m (plural s)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin būsto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbusto/ [ˈbus.t̪o]
  • Hyphenation: bus‧to

Noun

busto m (plural bustos)

  1. bust
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