Noun: busta
Gender: f
Hyphenation: bù‧sta
| Singular f | busta |
| Plural f | buste |
Sample Sentences
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La carta è troppo grande per la busta. (The letter is too big for the envelope.)
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busta primo giorno emissione (first-day cover)
Nouns inflected like busta
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French boiste, whence French boîte (“box”). Derived from Medieval Latin buxida, inflected form derived from Latin buxētum (“boxwood plantation”), from Latin buxus (“boxwood”). See: French Nouns '
boîte', Latin Nouns '
buxētum', Latin Nouns '
buxus'.
Verbs referencing "busta"
Catalan Nouns
bústia, Greek Nouns
αμπούστα.
Translations