Noun: busto
Gender: m
Hyphenation: bù‧sto
| Singular m | busto |
| Plural m | busti |
Sample Sentences
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Chiamansi ancora i sepolcri busti, e questi son detti da' corpi combusti, [...] (The sepulchres are still called tombs, so called for the cremated bodies, …) [1372 ca., Giovanni Boccaccio, Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri (Il comento sopra la Commedia di Dante Alighieri, Tomo II, Ig. Moutier (1831), page 280)]
Nouns inflected like busto
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin būstum (“burial mound, tomb”). The semantic shift from “tomb” to “bust” happened via the meaning of “sepulchral statue”. See: Latin Nouns '
būstum', Latin Nouns '
būstum'.
Verbs referencing "busto"
Catalan Nouns
bust, Irish Nouns
busta, Dutch Nouns
buste, French Nouns
buste, Spanish Nouns
busto, German Nouns
Büste, Old Norse Nouns
beysti.
Translations