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busta (plural bustas)
busta f
- bust (sculpture)
Borrowed from French buste, from Italian busto, from Latin būstum.
busta m (genitive singular busta, nominative plural bustaí)
- bust (sculpture)
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busta | bhusta | mbusta |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “busta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “busta”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “busta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Borrowed from Old French boiste, whence French boîte (“box”). From Medieval Latin buxida, inflected form derived from Latin buxētum (“boxwood plantation”), from Latin buxus (“boxwood”).
busta f (plural buste)
- busta paga (“payslip”)
- bustarella (“bribe”)
- bustina (“small envelope, sachet”)
- imbustare (verb)
busta
- (Rome, colloquial, soccer) said by someone after he's nutmegged someone (made the ball pass between their legs)
busta
- busta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
busta
- Alternative form of buzna
busta f
- bust (sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders)
- “busta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024