Adjective: tonto
Hyphenation: ton‧to
| Singular m. | tonto |
| Singular f. | tonta |
| Plural m. | tontos |
| Plural f. | tontas |
Sample Sentences
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¿Estás tonto? (Are you stupid?)
Adjectives inflected like tonto
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Uncertain. Latin attonitus has been proposed, but there are phonological difficulties, namely unexpected loss of initial /a/ and lack of diphthongization; cf. the expected outcome atuendo. Tonto may have an expressive or onomatopoeic origin. Another hypothesis is that it derives from *tontum, a 'vulgar' past participle for Latin tondeo (“to shear”). Compare Italian tonto, Portuguese tonto, and Romanian tont, tânt, Sicilian ntontu. See: Italian Adjectives '
tonto', Portuguese Adjectives '
tonto', Romanian Adjectives '
tont'.
Verbs referencing "tonto"
English Adjectives
tonto, Italian Adjectives
tonto, Portuguese Adjectives
tonto, Romanian Adjectives
tont.
Translations