frusto

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrus.to/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: frù‧sto

Alternative form of frustato, perfect passive participle of frustare (“to whip”, “to wear out”), derived from frusta (“whip”), from Latin fūstis (“knobbed stick”).

frusto (feminine frusta, masculine plural frusti, feminine plural fruste)

1. past participle of frustare

frusto (feminine frusta, masculine plural frusti, feminine plural fruste)

1. (dated) threadbare, worn out
   1. (figurative) outworn, worn out

Form of frustare.

frusto

1. first-person singular present indicative of frustare

Inherited from Latin frustum.

frusto m (plural frusti)

1. (archaic) a piece or scrap (of food)

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

From frustum (“piece”) +‎ -ō.

• frussō, frussiō, fruscō (Medieval Latin)

frustō (present infinitive frustāre, perfect active frustāvī, supine frustātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to break (something) to pieces

   Synonym: frustillō

2. (transitive) to subdivide (something) into smaller pieces

frustō

1. dative/ablative singular of frustum

• “frusto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “? frusto”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “frustare”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC