vastus
English
Etymology
From Latin vastus (“vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous”). Doublet of vast.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvæs.təs/
Noun
vastus (plural vasti)
- (anatomy) One of the great muscles upon the front of the thigh.
Derived terms
- vastus intermedius
- vastus lateralis
- vastus medialis
Anagrams
- ustavs
Estonian
Noun
vastus (genitive vastuse, partitive vastust)
- answer, response
Declension
Inflection of vastus (ÕS type 11/harjutus, no gradation)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vastus | vastused |
| accusative | vastuse | vastused |
| genitive | vastuse | vastuste |
| partitive | vastust | vastusi |
| illative | vastusse vastusesse | vastustesse vastusisse |
| inessive | vastuses | vastustes vastusis |
| elative | vastusest | vastustest vastusist |
| allative | vastusele | vastustele vastusile |
| adessive | vastusel | vastustel vastusil |
| ablative | vastuselt | vastustelt vastusilt |
| translative | vastuseks | vastusteks vastusiks |
| terminative | vastuseni | vastusteni |
| essive | vastusena | vastustena |
| abessive | vastuseta | vastusteta |
| comitative | vastusega | vastustega |
Finnish
Etymology
vasta- + -us
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɑstus/, [ˈʋɑs̠t̪us̠]
- Rhymes: -ɑstus
- Syllabification(key): vas‧tus
Noun
vastus
- resistor (electronic component)
- resistance (the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist)
- resistance (in physics, force that tends to oppose motion)
- resistance (in physics, electrical resistance)
- drag (resistance of air or other fluid to something moving in it)
- opposition (opposing side in competition)
- element (short form of heating element)
- (slang, gaming) enemy
- Synonyms: vihollinen, (slang) vihu
Declension
| Inflection of vastus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vastus | vastukset | |
| genitive | vastuksen | vastusten vastuksien | |
| partitive | vastusta | vastuksia | |
| illative | vastukseen | vastuksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vastus | vastukset | |
| accusative | nom. | vastus | vastukset |
| gen. | vastuksen | ||
| genitive | vastuksen | vastusten vastuksien | |
| partitive | vastusta | vastuksia | |
| inessive | vastuksessa | vastuksissa | |
| elative | vastuksesta | vastuksista | |
| illative | vastukseen | vastuksiin | |
| adessive | vastuksella | vastuksilla | |
| ablative | vastukselta | vastuksilta | |
| allative | vastukselle | vastuksille | |
| essive | vastuksena | vastuksina | |
| translative | vastukseksi | vastuksiksi | |
| instructive | — | vastuksin | |
| abessive | vastuksetta | vastuksitta | |
| comitative | — | vastuksineen | |
| Possessive forms of vastus (type vastaus) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | vastukseni | vastuksemme |
| 2nd person | vastuksesi | vastuksenne |
| 3rd person | vastuksensa | |
Synonyms
- (drag): ilmanvastus (of air), veden vastus (of water); väliaineen vastus (general)
- (opposition): vastustaja
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wāstos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with English waste, German Wüste.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aːs.tus/, [ˈu̯äːs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvas.tus/, [ˈväst̪us]
Adjective
vāstus (feminine vāsta, neuter vāstum, comparative vāstior, superlative vāstissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- (literally) Empty, unoccupied, i.e. waste, desert.
- (figurative) Uncultivated, unpolished, rude, rough, harsh.
- Desolate, deserted, made lonely.
- Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, devastated, destroyed.
- (of size) Vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous.
- Synonyms: impēnsus, immēnsus, ingēns, immānis
- (of degree) Immense, enormous, prodigious, vast.
- (figurative) Insatiable.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vāstus | vāsta | vāstum | vāstī | vāstae | vāsta | |
| Genitive | vāstī | vāstae | vāstī | vāstōrum | vāstārum | vāstōrum | |
| Dative | vāstō | vāstō | vāstīs | ||||
| Accusative | vāstum | vāstam | vāstum | vāstōs | vāstās | vāsta | |
| Ablative | vāstō | vāstā | vāstō | vāstīs | |||
| Vocative | vāste | vāsta | vāstum | vāstī | vāstae | vāsta | |
Derived terms
- vāstitās
- vāstitiēs
- vāstō
Descendants
- Catalan: vast
- English: vast
- French: vaste
- Galician: vasto
- Italian: vasto
- Portuguese: vasto
- Romanian: vast
- Spanish: vasto
References
- “vastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vastus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vastus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette