combusto

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin combustus (“burnt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈbus.to/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: com‧bù‧sto

Adjective

combusto (feminine combusta, masculine plural combusti, feminine plural combuste)

1. burnt, burned
   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 73–75; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Poeta fui, e cantai di quel giusto / figliuol d’Anchise che venne di Troia, / poi che ’l superbo Ilïón fu combusto.

     A poet I was, and I sang that just son of Anchises, who came forth from Troy, after that the superb Ilion the was burned.

Related terms

• combustione
• comburere
• comburente

Further reading

• combusto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Participle

combustō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of combustus