casto

See also: často

Galician

Etymology

From Latin castus.

Adjective

casto (feminine casta, masculine plural castos, feminine plural castas)

1. chaste

Related terms

• castidade

Further reading

• “casto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin castus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.to/, [ˈkäs̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -asto
• Hyphenation: cà‧sto

Adjective

1. chaste
   • c. 13th century, Francis of Assisi, Cantico di Frate Sole [Canticle of the Sun]‎^[1], printed by the Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco, page 2:

     Laudato ſi mi ſignore ᵱ ſoꝛ aqua, la quale e multo utile ⁊ hũile ⁊ p̃tioſa ⁊ caſta.

     Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Water, which is very useful and humble and precious and chaste.

2. (by extension) pure, innocent, virtuous

Synonyms

• (chaste): illibato, vergine
• (pure): candido, immacolato, innocente, pudico, puro, verecondo

Antonyms

• (chaste): erotomane, lascivo, libidinoso, licenzioso, lussurioso, ninfomane (for a woman)
• (pure): impudico, impuro, licenzioso, malizioso, provocante, perverso

Derived terms

• castamente

Related terms

• castigare
• castità
• incesto

Anagrams

• costa, costà

Further reading

• casto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Alternative forms

• chastō

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *kastō (“box, case”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.toː/, [ˈkäs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.to/, [ˈkäst̪o]

Noun

castō m (genitive castōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) encasement

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	castō	castōnēs
Genitive	castōnis	castōnum
Dative	castōnī	castōnibus
Accusative	castōnem	castōnēs
Ablative	castōne	castōnibus
Vocative	castō	castōnēs

Descendants

• Old French: chastun, chaston, chestun, caston
  • Middle French: chaton, chaston
    • French: chaton
• Galician: engastoar, gastallo, engastallar

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) castō

1. dative masculine singular of castus
2. dative neuter singular of castus
3. ablative masculine singular of castus
4. ablative neuter singular of castus

References

• casto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese casto, from Latin castus, possibly borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʃ.tu/
• Hyphenation: cas‧to

Adjective

1. chaste (abstaining from sexual activity)

Derived terms

• castamente

Related terms

• castidade
• castigar
• incesto

Further reading

• Template:R:Priberam

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin castus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasto/ [ˈkas.t̪o]

Adjective

casto (feminine casta, masculine plural castos, feminine plural castas) (superlative castísimo)

1. chaste (abstaining from sexual intercourse)
2. (obsolete) pure

Related terms

• castidad
• castigar
• castizo
• incesto

See also

• casta

Further reading

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