tosto
See also: Tosto, tostó, and tostò
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from English toast, French toast, German Toast, Russian тост (tost).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtosto/
Noun
tosto (plural tosti)
- toast, toasting
Derived terms
- tostar (“to toast”)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin tostus, probably from the sense of "drying rapidly". Cognate to French tôt, Occitan and Catalan tost.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.sto/
- Rhymes: -ɔsto
- Hyphenation: tò‧sto
Adverb
tosto
- (archaic) at once, immediately
- Synonyms: presto, rapidamente, subito
- 1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata (Gerusalem Delivered), BUR, page 243, Canto IV, octave 19, lines 1-2:
- Tosto, spiegando in vari lati i vanni, / si furon questi per lo mondo sparti, [...]
- At once, unfolding towards various directions their wings, they were scattered around the whole world.
Adjective
tosto (feminine tosta, masculine plural tosti, feminine plural toste, superlative tostissimo)
- (archaic) swift, rapid, hurried
- Synonyms: rapido, svelto, veloce
- (literary or regional) hard, tough, hard-boiled
- Synonyms: duro, sodo
- Antonym: mollo
- (by extension, colloquial) difficult
- badass
Verb
tosto
- first-person singular present indicative of tostare
Anagrams
- sotto, sotto-
Latin
Participle
tostō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of tostus
Portuguese
Verb
tosto
- first-person singular present indicative of tostar