adusto

Italian

FWOTD – 14 March 2013

Etymology

From Latin adustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdu.sto/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: a‧dù‧sto

Adjective

adusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adusti, feminine plural aduste)

1. scorched; parched (of land)
   • 1823, Francesco M. Franceschinis, L’Atenaide, volume 2, tipografia della Minerva, page 6:

     Rombo d’aria improvviso la percuote, / E vapor rosso copre i campi adusti;

     A roar in the air strikes suddenly, / And red vapour covers the scorched fields;

2. wizened (lean and wrinkled by age or illness)
   • 2009, Lev Tolstoy, translated by Loretta Loi, Guerra e pace, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, page 324:

     «È il diavolo che li ha portati!» pensava, mentre Tichon l’aiutava a infilare la camicia da notte sul suo corpo adusto di vecchio, coperto sul petto di peli grigi.

     “It is the devil who took them!” he though, while Tichon helped him put on a nightgown on his old, wizened body, covered by grey hair on the chest.

Anagrams

• sudato

Latin

Participle

adustō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of adustus

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adustus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdusto/ [aˈð̞us.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -usto
• Syllabification: a‧dus‧to

Adjective

adusto (feminine adusta, masculine plural adustos, feminine plural adustas)

1. surly, dour (of a person)
2. austere

Further reading

• “adusto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10