# vasto
## Finnish
### Verb

vasto
* inflection of vastoa:
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

### Anagrams

* sovat, vasot

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbasto/ [ˈbas̺.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -asto
* Hyphenation: bas‧to
* Homophone: basto

### Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas)
* vast, voluminous

### Further reading

* “vasto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈva.sto/
* Rhymes: -asto
* Hyphenation: và‧sto

### Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vasti, feminine plural vaste, superlative vastissimo)
* vast
    Synonyms: ampio, esteso

#### Related terms

* vastamente
* vastezza
* vastità

### Anagrams

* stavo

## Latin
### Etymology

From vāstus +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯aːs.toː/, [ˈu̯äːs̠t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvas.to/, [ˈväst̪o]

### Verb

vāstō (present infinitive vāstāre, perfect active vāstāvī, supine vāstātum); first conjugation
* to devastate, ravage or 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

#### Derived terms

* dēvāstō
* ēvāstō
* vāstātiō
* vāstātor

#### Descendants

* Catalan: gastar
* English: waste
* French: gâter
* Italian: guastare
* Piedmontese: guasté, vasté
* Portuguese: vastar, gastar
* Sicilian: vastari
* Spanish: gastar

### Adjective

vāstō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vāstus

### References

* “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, London: Macmillan and Co. to ravage with fire and sword: omnia ferro ignique, ferro atque igni or ferro flammaque vastare
* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “waste”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ Etymology and history of “gâter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvas.tu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈvas.tu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈvaʃ.tu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈvas.to/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvaʃ.tu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈvaʃ.tu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈbaʃ.tu/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -astu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -aʃtu
* Hyphenation: vas‧to

#### Adjective

vasto (feminine vasta, masculine plural vastos, feminine plural vastas, comparable, comparative mais vasto, superlative o mais vasto or vastíssimo)
* vast (very large or wide)

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

vasto
* first-person singular present indicative of vastar

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin vastus (“empty, vast”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbasto/ [ˈbas.t̪o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -asto
* Syllabification: vas‧to
* Homophone: basto

### Adjective

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

#### Derived terms

* vasto externo
* vasto interno

### Further reading

* “vasto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10