arbusto

From Latin arbustum, from arbor (“tree”) -tum (“adjective-forming suffix”).

• IPA^(key): /arˈbusto/

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• Rhymes: -usto
• Syllabification: ar‧bus‧to

arbusto (accusative singular arbuston, plural arbustoj, accusative plural arbustojn)

1. shrub, bush, shrubbery

Learned borrowing from Latin arbustum.

arbusto m (plural arbustos)

1. shrub, bush

   Synonyms: gamallo, garamallo, albustre

Borrowed from French arbuste, Italian arbusto, Spanish arbusto.

• IPA^(key): /arˈbusto/

arbusto (plural arbusti)

1. shrub, bush (not over three feet in height)

• arbustaro (“thicket”)
• subarbusto (“underbush”)

Borrowed from Latin arbustum.

• IPA^(key): /arˈbus.to/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: ar‧bù‧sto

arbusto m (plural arbusti)

1. shrub, bush

   Synonym: frutice

• arbustaceo
• arbustivo
• arbustoso

• cespuglio

• arbusto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• arbusto in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

• robusta

From arbustus (“planted with trees”) or arbustum (“orchard”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [arˈbʊs.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [arˈbus.to]

arbustō (present infinitive arbustāre, perfect active arbustāvī, supine arbustātum); first conjugation

1. (hapax legomenon) to plant with trees
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.201:

     Transpādana Italia praeter suprā dictās cornū, opulō, tiliā, acere, ornō, carpinō, quercū arbustat agrōs, Venetia salice propter ūlīginem solī.

     Transpadanian Italy plants the fields with cornel, maple [of some other kind than acer], linden, maple, hornbeam and oak, besides those mentioned above, Veneto with willow on account of the moisture of the soil.

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

Borrowed from Latin arbustum.

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ustu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃtu
• Hyphenation: ar‧bus‧to

arbusto m (plural arbustos)

1. shrub

• “arbusto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “arbusto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin arbustum.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈbusto/ [aɾˈβ̞us.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -usto
• Syllabification: ar‧bus‧to

arbusto m (plural arbustos)

1. bush, shrub

• “arbusto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025