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 intermedius
• vastus lateralis
• vastus medialis

• ustavs

vastus (genitive vastuse, partitive vastust)

1. answer, response

vasta- +‎ -us

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

vastus

1. resistor (electronic component)
2. resistance (the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist)
3. resistance (in physics, force that tends to oppose motion)
4. resistance (in physics, electrical resistance)
5. drag (resistance of air or other fluid to something moving in it)
6. opposition (opposing side in competition)
7. element (short form of heating element)
8. (slang, gaming) enemy

   Synonyms: vihollinen, (slang) vihu

• (drag): ilmanvastus (of air), veden vastus (of water); väliaineen vastus (general)
• (opposition): vastustaja

From Proto-Italic *wāstos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with English waste, German Wüste.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯aːs.tus/, [ˈu̯äːs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvas.tus/, [ˈväst̪us]

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. (of size) Vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous.

   Synonyms: impēnsus, immēnsus, ingēns, immānis

   1. (of degree) Immense, enormous, prodigious, vast.
   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