restio

See also: Restio

English

Noun

restio (plural restios)

1. (botany) Any member of the family of perennial, evergreen, rush-like flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere.

Anagrams

• Sortie, Storie, Tories, sortie, storie, tiroes, tories, triose, œstri

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Italian

Adjective

1. reluctant, unwilling

Anagrams

• esorti
• riteso
• roseti
• sorite
• storie
• tesori

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Latin

Etymology

From restis (“rope”) +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈres.ti.oː/, [ˈrɛs̠t̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈres.ti.o/, [ˈrɛst̪io]

Noun

restiō m (genitive restiōnis); third declension

1. ropemaker

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	restiō	restiōnēs
genitive	restiōnis	restiōnum
dative	restiōnī	restiōnibus
accusative	restiōnem	restiōnēs
ablative	restiōne	restiōnibus
vocative	restiō	restiōnēs

References

• “restio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• restio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.