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vasto

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Finnish

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Verb

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vasto

  1. inflection of vastoa:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

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Galician

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Etymology

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    Derived from Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

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    vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas)

    1. vast, voluminous

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    Italian

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    Etymology

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    From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

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    • IPA(key): /ˈvas.to/
    • Rhymes: -asto
    • Hyphenation: và‧sto

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    vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasti, feminine plural vaste, superlative vastissimo)

    1. vast
      Synonyms: ampio, esteso
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    Latin

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    Etymology

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      From vāstus + -ō.

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      vāstō (present infinitive vāstāre, perfect active vāstāvī, supine vāstātum); first conjugation

      1. to devastate, destroy, ravage, lay waste
        Synonyms: ruīnō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, aboleō, occīdō, perdō, exscindō, dēstruō, accīdō, tollō, dīruō, populor, impellō, sepeliō, interimō, perimō, trucīdō
        Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor
        • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.3:
          Catilīnam orbem terrae caede atque incendiīs vastāre cupientem nōs cōnsulēs perferēmus?
          Catiline — [who] desires to lay waste the whole world with slaughter and fire — will we consuls tolerate [him]?

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      Adjective

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      vāstō

      1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vāstus

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      • “vasto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “vasto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • “vasto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
      • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
        • to ravage with fire and sword: omnia ferro ignique, ferro atque igni or ferro flammaque vastare
      1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “waste”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
      2. ^ Etymology and history of “gâter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

      Portuguese

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      Etymology 1

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        Derived from Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

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        • Rhymes: (Brazil) -astu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃtu
        • Hyphenation: vas‧to

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        vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, comparable, comparative mais vasto, superlative o mais vasto or vastíssimo)

        1. vast (very large or wide)

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        • “vasto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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        vasto

        1. first-person singular present indicative of vastar

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        Spanish

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        Etymology

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          Derived from Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

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          vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, superlative vastísimo)

          1. vast
          2. (slang, Spain) gnarly, wild, hardcore
            Esa película es muy vasta
            That movie is pretty hardcore

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