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venusto

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin venustus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /veˈnu.sto/
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Hyphenation: ve‧nù‧sto

Adjective

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venusto (feminine venusta, masculine plural venusti, feminine plural venuste)

  1. (literary) beautiful in a specifically graceful way
    Synonym: bello
    • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[1], lines 124–126; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      dal destro vedi quel padre vetusto
      di Santa Chiesa a cui Cristo le chiavi
      raccomandò di questo fior venusto.
      On the right you see that ancient father of Holy Church, to whom Christ entrusted the keys of this beautiful flower.
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Anagrams

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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venustō (present infinitive venustāre, perfect active venustāvī, supine venustātum); first conjugation

  1. to beautify

Conjugation

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Adjective

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venustō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of venustus

References

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