infausto
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈfaws.to/
- Rhymes: -awsto
- Hyphenation: in‧fàu‧sto
Adjective
infausto (feminine infausta, masculine plural infausti, feminine plural infauste)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- infausto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
īnfaustō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of īnfaustus
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin īnfaustus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩˈfaws.tu/ [ĩˈfaʊ̯s.tu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩˈfawʃ.tu/ [ĩˈfaʊ̯ʃ.tu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩˈfaws.to/ [ĩˈfaʊ̯s.to]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩˈfawʃ.tu/
- Hyphenation: in‧faus‧to
Adjective
infausto (feminine infausta, masculine plural infaustos, feminine plural infaustas)
Spanish
FWOTD – 10 June 2023
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈfausto/ [ĩɱˈfau̯s.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -austo
- Syllabification: in‧faus‧to
Adjective
infausto (feminine infausta, masculine plural infaustos, feminine plural infaustas)
- doomed, ill-fated
- Synonym: aciago
- infausta noticia ― ill-fated news
- infausta noche ― ill-fated night
- infaustos tiempos ― doomed times
- infausta fama ― doomed fame
- 1878, Francisco Pí y Margall, Historia general de América:
- De que naciesen en días faustos ó infaustos hacían por otra parte depender su porvenir los hombres de todas las razas cultas
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1909, Julio Flórez, Gotas de ajenjo:
- Si herido el corazón, la planta herida,
llora la humanidad su infausta suerte- If its heart is wounded, the wounded plant
cries for humanity's doomed fate
- If its heart is wounded, the wounded plant
- 2012, Diego Borinsky, Almeyda: Alma y vida:
- se anotó con 63 minutos en el infausto empate con Suecia
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2015 October 20, Jordi Soler, “La destilación genética”, in El País[1]:
- la infausta soledad genética
- the doomed genetic loneliness
Antonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “infausto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024