vasto

vasto

1. inflection of vastoa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• sovat, vasot

From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbasto/ [ˈbas̺.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -asto
• Hyphenation: bas‧to
• Homophone: basto

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas)

1. vast, voluminous

• “vasto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvas.to/
• Rhymes: -asto
• Hyphenation: và‧sto

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasti, feminine plural vaste, superlative vastissimo)

1. vast

   Synonyms: ampio, esteso

• stavo

From vāstus + -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaːs.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvas.to]

vāstō (present infinitive vāstāre, perfect active vāstāvī, supine vāstātum); first conjugation

1. to devastate, destroy, ravage, lay waste

   Synonyms: ruīnō, dēvāstō, ēvāstō, aboleō, occīdō, perdō, exscindō, dēstruō, accīdō, tollō, dīruō, populor, impellō, sepeliō, interimō, perimō, trucīdō

   Antonyms: ēmendō, reficiō, reparō, corrigō, medeor

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.3:

     Catilīnam orbem terrae caede atque incendiīs vastāre cupientem nōs cōnsulēs perferēmus?

     Catiline — [who] desires to lay waste the whole world with slaughter and fire — will we consuls tolerate [him]?

• dēvāstō
• ēvāstō
• vāstātiō
• vāstātor

vāstō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vāstus

• “vasto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vasto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vasto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to ravage with fire and sword: omnia ferro ignique, ferro atque igni or ferro flammaque vastare
    

From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -astu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃtu
• Hyphenation: vas‧to

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, comparable, comparative mais vasto, superlative o mais vasto or vastíssimo)

1. vast (very large or wide)

• “vasto” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

vasto

1. first-person singular present indicative of vastar

• “vasto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “vasto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbasto/ [ˈbas.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -asto
• Syllabification: vas‧to
• Homophone: basto

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, superlative vastísimo)

1. vast
2. (Melilla) gnarly, wild, hardcore

   Esa película es muy vasta

   That movie is pretty hardcore

• “vasto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025