vastus

From Latin vastus (“vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous”). Doublet of vast.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvæs.təs/

vastus (plural vasti)

1. (anatomy) One of the great muscles upon the front of the thigh.

• vastus externus
• vastus intermedius
• vastus lateralis
• vastus medialis

• ustavs

vastus (genitive vastuse, partitive vastust)

1. answer, response

From Proto-Finnic *vastus. Equivalent to vasta- (“counter-, against”) +‎ -us.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑstus/, [ˈʋɑ̝s̠tus̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑstus
• Syllabification^(key): vas‧tus
• Hyphenation^(key): vas‧tus

vastus

1. resistance (the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist)
2. (physics) resistance (force that tends to oppose motion)
3. drag (resistance of air or other fluid to something moving in it)

   Synonym: väliaineen vastus (“drag of any medium in general”)

   Hyponyms: ilmanvastus (“air resistance, drag”), veden vastus (“water drag”)

4. (electricity) resistance (electrical resistance)

   Synonym: sähkövastus

5. (electricity) resistor (electronic component)

   Synonym: resistori

6. ellipsis of lämmitysvastus (“heating element”): element
7. opposition (opposing side in competition)

   Synonym: vastustaja

8. (slang, gaming) enemy

   Synonyms: vihollinen, (slang) vihu

• “vastus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

From Proto-Italic *wāstos, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)weh₂-stos, from *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *wāstos (“empty”) and Proto-Germanic *wōstaz (whence English waste, German Wüste) and related to Latin vānus and vacō.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaːs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvas.t̪us]

Note: the length of the root vowel is not certain, but is surmised to be long on the basis of the Celtic and Germanic cognate terms.^[2]

vāstus (feminine vāsta, neuter vāstum, comparative vāstior, superlative vāstissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. (literally) Empty, unoccupied, i.e. waste, desert.
   1. (figurative) Uncultivated, unpolished, rude, rough, harsh.
2. Desolate, deserted, made lonely.
3. Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, devastated, destroyed.
4. Vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous. (of size)

   Synonyms: impēnsus, immēnsus, ingēns, immānis

   1. Immense, enormous, prodigious, vast. (of degree)
   2. (figurative) Insatiable.

First/second-declension adjective.

• vāstitās
• vāstitiēs
• vāstō

• “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.