venusto

Borrowed from Latin venustus.

• IPA^(key): /veˈnus.to/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: ve‧nù‧sto

venusto (feminine venusta, masculine plural venusti, feminine plural venuste)

1. (literary) beautiful in a specifically graceful way

   Synonym: bello

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 124–126; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     dal destro vedi quel padre vetusto
     di Santa Chiesa a cui Cristo le chiavi
     raccomandò di questo fior venusto.

     On the right you see that ancient father of Holy Church, to whom Christ entrusted the keys of this beautiful flower.

• venustà

• svenuto

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛˈnʊs.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈnus.t̪o]

venustō (present infinitive venustāre, perfect active venustāvī, supine venustātum); first conjugation

1. to beautify

venustō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of venustus

• “venusto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• venusto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.