Risto
Appearance
See also: ristò
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Risto
- A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Ристо (Risto)
Estonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Variant of Kristo, short form of Kristjan (“Christian”) and Kristofer (“Christopher”).
Proper noun
[edit]Risto
- a male given name
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Medieval vernacular form of Ancient Greek Χρῑστόφορος (Khrīstóphoros) (cognate with English Christopher) and of Kristian.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Risto
- a male given name
- The letter R in the Finnish spelling alphabet.
- a Finnish surname transferred from the given name
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Risto (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Risto | Ristot | |
genitive | Riston | Ristojen | |
partitive | Ristoa | Ristoja | |
illative | Ristoon | Ristoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Risto | Ristot | |
accusative | nom. | Risto | Ristot |
gen. | Riston | ||
genitive | Riston | Ristojen | |
partitive | Ristoa | Ristoja | |
inessive | Ristossa | Ristoissa | |
elative | Ristosta | Ristoista | |
illative | Ristoon | Ristoihin | |
adessive | Ristolla | Ristoilla | |
ablative | Ristolta | Ristoilta | |
allative | Ristolle | Ristoille | |
essive | Ristona | Ristoina | |
translative | Ristoksi | Ristoiksi | |
abessive | Ristotta | Ristoitta | |
instructive | — | Ristoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- (given names) Kristian, Kristo
- (surnames) Ristola, Ristolainen
Statistics
[edit]- Risto is the 33rd most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 17,172 male individuals (and as a middle name to 3,109 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
- The surname Risto belongs to 248 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English renderings of Macedonian male given names
- English terms derived from Macedonian
- English terms borrowed from Macedonian
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian male given names
- Finnish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/isto
- Rhymes:Finnish/isto/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish male given names
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish surnames from given names
- Finnish valo-type nominals