# santo
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish santo.

### Noun

santo (plural santos)
* (art) A wooden or ivory statue of a saint, angel or other religious figure, found in Spain and former Spanish colonies.
** 1972, Shirley Glubok, The Art of the Spanish in the United States and Puerto Rico:A santo may get a new coat of paint on its feast day or at Christmas. Or sometimes, when a prayer has been granted, a Puerto Rican repays his santo with a fresh coat of paint.

### See also

* vin santo, Vin Santo

### Anagrams

* natos, tonas, sat on, Stano, aston, Aston, Atons, Tanos

## Asturian
### Adjective

santo
* neuter of santu

## Galician
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsanto/ [ˈs̺an̪.t̪ʊ]
* Rhymes: -anto

### Adjective

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas)
* holy, sacred

#### Derived terms

* camposanto

### Noun

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)
* saint

#### Derived terms

* costa abaixo todos os santos axudan

### Related terms

* san
* santificar

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* santu (nonstandard)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese santo (“male saint”), from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsan.tɔ/
* Rhymes: -tɔ
* Hyphenation: san‧to

### Noun

santo m (feminine santa)
* (Christianity) saint

### Further reading

* “santo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Istriot
### Etymology

Derived from Latin sānctus.

### Adjective

santo
* holy

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* san (Saint, before a consonant (except preconsonantal s))
* sant' (Saint, before a vowel)
* S. (Saint, abbreviation)

### Etymology

Derived from Latin sānctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsan.to/
* Rhymes: -anto
* Hyphenation: sàn‧to

### Adjective

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santi, feminine plural sante, superlative santissimo)
* holy

### Noun

santo m (plural santi, feminine santa)
* saint
* (before a name of a saint or in place names, often capitalized) Saint

#### Derived terms

* Anno Santo
* camposanto
* santa Messa
* Santa Sede
* santabarbara
* santamente
* santificare
* santificazione
* santino
* santissimo
* santità
* Santo Padre
* Santo Sepolcro
* santone
* santorale
* santuario
* Settimana Santa
* Spirito Santo
* Terra Santa
* tutti i Santi / Ognissanti
* vinsanto

### See also

* beato
* sacro

### Further reading

* santo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* stano, stanò, stona

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish santo, sancto, from Latin sānctus.

### Adjective

santo (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סאנטו)
* holy (godly)
    Synonyms: kadosh, sagrado
    Hyponym: santisimo

### Noun

santo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling סאנטו, feminine santa)
* male saint
** 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎, Nur Afakot, page 28:Este es un kuento atado a una eksperiensa emosional sovrenatural, ke sea una eksperiensa emosional sovrenatural, ke sea una eksperiensa emosional relijioza personal, komo por exemplo un kuento sovre un santo sovrenatural o sovre un amahamiento mirakolozo, ke se trate de una eksperiensia emosional de un enkontro kon un ser sovrenatural o de un ser de otro mundo, komo un guerko o un fantazma.This is an account connected to an emotional supernatural experience, whether it be an emotional supernatural experience, or a personal emotional religious experience, as for example an account about a supernatural saint or about a miracle cure, it is about an emotional experience from an encounter with a supernatural being or a being from another world, like a demon or a ghost.

#### Related terms

* santifikado
* santifikador
* santifikamiento
* santifikar
* santifikarse
* santifikasión
* santuario

#### See also

* sakro

### References

* 1 2 “santo”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sanctus.

### Pronunciation

* (Naples) IPA: [ˈsandə], (in sandhi) [-u]
** (feminine) IPA: [ˈsandə], (in sandhi) [-a]

### Adjective

santo (feminine singular santa, plural sante)
* holy

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 800: “la pila dell'acqua santa” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, pages 80, 82

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* san (before consonants)
* sãto, sancto

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sānctus, from Proto-Italic *sanktos, from *sankjō, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-.

### Adjective

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)
* holy; sacred
    Synonym: sagrado

#### Related terms

* fogo de San Marçal
* Padre Santo
* Santa Maria
* Santiago

### Noun

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)
* (Catholicism) saint

### Descendants

* Fala: santu
* Galician: santo
* Portuguese: santo, sancto (obsolete)
** → Kadiwéu: xaanto
** → Nheengatu: santu
** → Tetum: santu

### References

* Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “san ~ santo¹, santa”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
* Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “santo²”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “santo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “santo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* san, sancto, sant, santi

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin sānctus, from Proto-Italic *sanktos, from *sankjō, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-.

### Adjective

santo (feminine santa)
* (religion) sacred; consecrated; holy; godly
** c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 78v. col. 2.:Vn poco adelant apar de orient. es elaltar de ſanta trinjdat o la uera .☩. ſolie eſtar. todo es enla egleſia. dentro en el ſepulcroA little toward the east is the altar of the Holy Trinity, where the True Cross used to be. Everything is in the church, inside the sepulcher.

#### Descendants

* Ladino: santo, סאנטו
* Spanish: santo
** Tagalog: santo

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “santo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 457

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀲𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* सन्तो (Devanagari script)
* সন্তো (Bengali script)
* සන‍්තො (Sinhalese script)
* သန္တော or သၼ္တေႃ or သၼ်တေႃ (Burmese script)
* สนฺโต or สันโต (Thai script)
* ᩈᨶ᩠ᨲᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ສນ຺ໂຕ or ສັນໂຕ (Lao script)
* សន្តោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄥𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

santo
* nominative singular/plural masculine of santa, which is present active participle of atthi (“to be”)
* nominative singular masculine of santa (“calm”), which is past participle of sammati (“to be calmed”)
* nominative singular masculine of santa (“tired”), which is past participle of sammati (“to be tired”)

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* sancto (obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɐ̃.tu/
* Homophone: Santo
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
* Hyphenation: san‧to

### Adjective

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas, comparable, comparative mais santo, superlative o mais santo or santíssimo, diminutive santinho)
* holy, sacred
** dedicated to a religious purpose or a god; religious
    Synonym: religioso
    Antonyms: laico, secular
** flawless from a religious point of view
    Synonyms: perfeito, puro
** designed or exalted by a divine sanction; venerable
    Synonyms: sagrado, sacro, venerável
** (of a day) during which one must dedicate himself to religion, rather than work
** saintly; relating to saints
* (figuratively) pure, immaculate, undefiled
** innocent
    Synonyms: puro, inocente
    Antonyms: impuro, pecador, réprobo
** chaste
    Synonyms: puro, casto, imaculado
    Antonyms: impuro, libidinoso

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “flawless from a religious point of view”): impuro, pecador, réprobo

#### Derived terms

* campo-santo
* Santo
* todo santo dia

### Noun

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)
* (Roman Catholicism) someone who has been formally canonised by the Catholic Church
* (Candomblé, Afro-Brazilian religion) orisha (deities in the Yoruba religion)
* saint (a virtuous or holy person)
* an extremely kind individual

#### Derived terms

* feitura de santo
* mãe de santo
* pai de santo
* quando a esmola é demais, o santo desconfia
* santeiro
* santinho
* santo do pau oco
* santo padroeiro

#### Related terms

* santificação
* santificado
* santificador
* santificante
* santificar
* santificável
* santimônia
* santuário

#### Descendants

* → Kadiwéu: xaanto
* → Nheengatu: santu
* → Tetum: santu

### Further reading

* “santo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
* “santo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* sancto (obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish santo, sancto, from Latin sānctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsanto/ [ˈsãn̪.t̪o]
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* Rhymes: -anto
* Syllabification: san‧to

### Adjective

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas, superlative santísimo)
* holy, godly

### Noun

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)
* male saint
* name day
    Synonym: onomástica

#### Derived terms

* Altos Días Santos
* árbol de santa Lucía
* bula de la santa cruzada
* campo santo
* como a un santo dos pistolas
* Día de los Santos Inocentes
* Día de Todos los Santos
* dormir en santa paz
* espina santa
* Espíritu Santo
* flor de Santa Lucía
* guerra santa
* hierba santa
* hueso de santo
* irse el santo al cielo
* Jueves Santo
* llegar y besar el santo
* mano de santo
* padre santo
* palo santo
* por todos los santos
* quedarse para vestir santos
* san
* santo de pajares
* Santo Grial
* santo grial
* Santo Niño
* santo patrón
* santo patrono
* Santo Tomás
* santo y bueno
* santo y seña
* ser santo de la devoción de alguien
* Tierra Santa
* toque de santo
* Viernes Santo

#### Related terms

* santidad
* santificar

#### See also

* sacro
* sagrado

### Further reading

* “santo”, 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

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* Santo
* Sto. — abbreviation

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish santo, from Old Spanish sancto, from Latin sānctus.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsanto/ [ˈsan̪.t̪o], /sanˈto/ [sɐn̪ˈt̪o]
* Rhymes: -anto, -o
* Syllabification: san‧to

### Noun

santo or santó (feminine santa, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
* saint (especially a male saint)
* image or statue of a saint

#### Derived terms

* Araw ng mga Santo
* kasanto-santuhan
* kasantuhan
* pagkasanto
* santo-santo
* santo-santuhan
* Santong Sulat
* santuhin

#### Related terms

* Biyernes Santo
* delos Santos
* Espiritu Santo
* Huwebes Santo
* kamposanto
* Miyerkoles Santo
* por Diyós, por santo
* sakrosanto
* San
* santakrusan
* santelmo
* santisima
* santisimo
* Santisimo Sakramento
* santo oleo
* Santo Padre
* Santo Papa
* Santos
* santuron
* Todos los Santos

#### See also

* pintakasi
* rebulto
* santuwaryo

### Adjective

santo or santó (feminine santa, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)
* referring to an important figure, item, or event which had a masculine gender in Spanish: holy; sacred (used in certain expressions)
    Synonym: banal

### Further reading

* “santo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* tanso