restio

restio (plural restios)

1. (botany) Any member of the family Restionaceae of perennial, evergreen, rush-like flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere.
   • 2012, Els Dorrat-Haaksma, H. Peter Linder, Restios of the Fynbos, →ISBN, page 14:

     Restios can be found in virtually all habitats of the fynbos, from sandy plains to mountain summits and from very dry places to seasonally wet or to permanent marshes.

2. (botany) In particular, any member of the genus Restio of the family Restionaceae

• restio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Restionaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Restionaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• storie, triose, Storie, tiroes, sortie, tories, oister, œstri, Sortie, oestri, roesti, Tories

From Late Latin *restivus.

• IPA^(key): /resˈti.o/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: re‧stì‧o

restio (feminine restia, masculine plural restii, feminine plural restie)

1. reluctant, unwilling

• restiamente

• esorti, istero-, ortesi, riteso, roseti, sorite, storie, tesori

From restis (“rope”) + -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛs.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛs.ti.o]

restiō m (genitive restiōnis); third declension

1. ropemaker

Third-declension noun.

• restiārius

• Translingual: Restio

• “restio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “restio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.