insulto

See also: insultó and insultò

Asturian

Verb

insulto

1. first-person singular present indicative of insultar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [inˈsul.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [inˈsul.to]

Verb

insulto

1. first-person singular present indicative of insultar

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish insulto.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: in‧sul‧to
• IPA^(key): /ʔinˈsulto/ [ʔɪn̪ˈs̪ul̪.t̪o]

Noun

insulto

1. insult

Verb

insulto

1. to insult

Conjugation

Conjugation for insulto (mang- )

affix		mang-
root word		insulto
trigger		actor
aspect
infinitive		manginsulto
past/present inchoative		nanginsulto
future/habitual inchoative		manginsulto
imperative		panginsulto

Conjugation for insulto (-on )

affix		-on
root word		insulto
trigger		object
aspect
infinitive		insultohon
past/present inchoative		giinsulto
future/habitual inchoative		insultohon
imperative		insultoha

Conjugation for insulto (-an )

affix		-an
root word		insulto
trigger		object
aspect
infinitive		insultohan
past/present inchoative		giinsultohan
future/habitual inchoative		insultohan
imperative		insultohi

Central Bikol

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish insulto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔinˈsulto/ [ʔin̪ˈsul̪.to]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ulto
• Hyphenation: in‧sul‧to

Noun

insúlto (Basahan spelling ᜁᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. insult

   Synonym: tuya

Derived terms

• insultohon
• mag-insulto

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈsulto/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ulto
• Syllabification: in‧sul‧to

Noun

insulto (accusative singular insulton, plural insultoj, accusative plural insultojn)

1. insult, affront

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested since the 15th century. Learned borrowing from Latin īnsultus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [inˈsultʊ]

Noun

insulto m (plural insultos)

1. insult, abuse; affront

   Synonym: deosto

   • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 272:

     que desta dita çibdade avían partido Pero Dias de Cadorna e Martín Sánches, abade da Triindade da dita çibdade, con çerta gente de cavalo e de pe, pera Milmanda, sobre rasón de çerto insulto que ena dita villa de Millmanda avían feyto Martín de Castro, con peça de gente do señorío de Purtogal

     that from this city [Ourense] had departed Pedro Diaz de Cadorna and Martín Sánchez, abbot of the Trinity of said city, with some mounted and unmounted people, to Milmanda, because of a certain insult that in said town of Milmanda had done Martín de Castro with a group of people of the realm of Portugal

Derived terms

• insultar

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “insulto”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “insulto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “insulto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Etymology 2

Verb

insulto

1. first-person singular present indicative of insultar

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈsul.to/
• Rhymes: -ulto
• Hyphenation: in‧sùl‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin īnsultus.

Noun

insulto m (plural insulti)

1. insult, abuse, slur
2. (pathology) insult

Related terms

• insultare
• insultatore

Etymology 2

Verb

insulto

1. first-person singular present indicative of insultare

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From īnsiliō +‎ -tō (forms frequentative verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ĩːˈsʊɫ.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈsul.to]

Verb

īnsultō (present infinitive īnsultāre, perfect active īnsultāvī, supine īnsultātum); first conjugation

1. to spring, leap or jump at or upon
2. to revile, abuse, taunt or insult

   Synonym: maledīcō

Conjugation

   Conjugation of īnsultō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	īnsultō		īnsultās		īnsultat		īnsultāmus		īnsultātis		īnsultant
	imperfect	īnsultābam		īnsultābās		īnsultābat		īnsultābāmus		īnsultābātis		īnsultābant
	future	īnsultābō		īnsultābis		īnsultābit		īnsultābimus		īnsultābitis		īnsultābunt
	perfect	īnsultāvī		īnsultāvistī		īnsultāvit		īnsultāvimus		īnsultāvistis		īnsultāvērunt, īnsultāvēre
	pluperfect	īnsultāveram		īnsultāverās		īnsultāverat		īnsultāverāmus		īnsultāverātis		īnsultāverant
	future perfect	īnsultāverō		īnsultāveris		īnsultāverit		īnsultāverimus		īnsultāveritis		īnsultāverint
passive	present	īnsultor		īnsultāris, īnsultāre		īnsultātur		īnsultāmur		īnsultāminī		īnsultantur
	imperfect	īnsultābar		īnsultābāris, īnsultābāre		īnsultābātur		īnsultābāmur		īnsultābāminī		īnsultābantur
	future	īnsultābor		īnsultāberis, īnsultābere		īnsultābitur		īnsultābimur		īnsultābiminī		īnsultābuntur
	perfect	īnsultātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	īnsultātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	īnsultātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	īnsultem		īnsultēs		īnsultet		īnsultēmus		īnsultētis		īnsultent
	imperfect	īnsultārem		īnsultārēs		īnsultāret		īnsultārēmus		īnsultārētis		īnsultārent
	perfect	īnsultāverim		īnsultāverīs		īnsultāverit		īnsultāverīmus		īnsultāverītis		īnsultāverint
	pluperfect	īnsultāvissem		īnsultāvissēs		īnsultāvisset		īnsultāvissēmus		īnsultāvissētis		īnsultāvissent
passive	present	īnsulter		īnsultēris, īnsultēre		īnsultētur		īnsultēmur		īnsultēminī		īnsultentur
	imperfect	īnsultārer		īnsultārēris, īnsultārēre		īnsultārētur		īnsultārēmur		īnsultārēminī		īnsultārentur
	perfect	īnsultātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	īnsultātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		īnsultā		—		—		īnsultāte		—
	future	—		īnsultātō		īnsultātō		—		īnsultātōte		īnsultantō
passive	present	—		īnsultāre		—		—		īnsultāminī		—
	future	—		īnsultātor		īnsultātor		—		—		īnsultantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		īnsultāre			īnsultārī			īnsultāns			—
future		īnsultātūrum esse			īnsultātum īrī			īnsultātūrus			īnsultandus
perfect		īnsultāvisse			īnsultātum esse			—			īnsultātus
future perfect		—			īnsultātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		īnsultātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		īnsultandī		īnsultandō		īnsultandum		īnsultandō		īnsultātum		īnsultātū

Derived terms

• īnsultābundus
• īnsultātus

Descendants

• → Asturian: insultar
• → Catalan: insultar
• → English: insult
• → French: insulter
  • → Romanian: insulta
• → Friulian: insultâ
• → Galician: insultar
• → Italian: insultare
• → Occitan: insultar
• → Piedmontese: insulté
• → Portuguese: insultar
• → Sicilian: nzurtari
• → Spanish: insultar

References

• “insulto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “insulto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “insulto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈsuw.tu/ [ĩˈsuʊ̯.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈsuw.tu/ [ĩˈsuʊ̯.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩˈsuw.to/ [ĩˈsuʊ̯.to]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩˈsul.tu/ [ĩˈsuɫ.tu]

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ultu, (Brazil) -uwtu
• Hyphenation: in‧sul‧to

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin īnsultus.

Noun

insulto m (plural insultos)

1. insult (action or speech deliberately intended to be rude)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insulto

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:insulto

Related terms

• insultado
• insultador
• insultante
• insultar
• insultuoso

Etymology 2

Verb

insulto

1. first-person singular present indicative of insultar

Further reading

• “insulto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈsulto/ [ĩnˈsul̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ulto
• Syllabification: in‧sul‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin īnsultus.

Noun

insulto m (plural insultos)

1. insult

Related terms

• insultar

Descendants

• → Central Bikol: insulto
• → Cebuano: insulto
• → Tagalog: insulto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

insulto

1. first-person singular present indicative of insultar

Further reading

• “insulto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish insulto.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔinˈsulto/ [ʔɪn̪ˈsul.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ulto
• Syllabification: in‧sul‧to

Noun

insulto (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜈ᜔ᜐᜓᜎ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. insult

   Synonyms: lait, upasala, alipusta, paglait, pag-alipusta, pag-upasala, paghamak, wika

Derived terms

• insultuhin
• mag-insulto
• mag-insultuhan
• mainsulto
• mainsultuhan
• makapang-insulto
• mang-insulto
• mapang-insulto
• nakakainsulto
• pang-iinsulto
• uminsulto