casto

From Latin castus.

casto m (feminine singular casta, masculine plural castos, feminine plural castas)

1. chaste

• castidade

• “casto” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

From Latin castus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkas.to/, [ˈkäs̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -asto
• Stress: càsto
• Hyphenation: ca‧sto

casto (feminine singular casta, masculine plural casti, feminine plural caste)

1. chaste
   • c. 13y, Francis of Assisi, Cantico di Frate Sole [Canticle of the Sun]‎, printed by the Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco, page 2:

     Laudato ſi mi ſignore ᵱ ſoꝛ aqua, la quale e multo utile ⁊ hũile ⁊ p̃tioſa ⁊ caſta.

     Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Water, which is very useful and humble and precious and chaste.

2. (by extension) pure, innocent, virtuous

• (chaste): illibato, vergine
• (pure): candido, immacolato, innocente, pudico, puro, verecondo

• (chaste): erotomane, lascivo, libidinoso, licenzioso, lussurioso, ninfomane (for a woman)
• (pure): impudico, impuro, licenzioso, malizioso, provocante, perverso

• castamente

• castigare
• castità
• incesto

• costa, costà

• casto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• chastō

Borrowed from Frankish *kastō (“box, case”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkas.toː/

castō m (genitive castōnis); third declension[1][2]

1. (Medieval Latin) encasement

Third declension.

• Old French: chastun, chaston, chestun, caston
  • Middle French: chaton, chaston
    • French: chaton
• Galician: engastoar, gastallo, engastallar

castō

1. dative masculine singular of castus
2. dative neuter singular of castus
3. ablative masculine singular of castus
4. ablative neuter plural of castus

• casto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Old Portuguese casto, from Latin castus, possibly borrowed.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʃ.tu/
• Hyphenation: cas‧to

casto m (feminine singular casta, masculine plural castos, feminine plural castas, comparable)

1. chaste (abstaining from sexual activity)

• castidade
• castigar
• incesto

• “casto” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin castus[1].

• IPA^(key): /ˈkasto/, [ˈkast̪o]

casto (feminine singular casta, masculine plural castos, feminine plural castas) (superlative castísimo)

1. chaste (abstaining from sexual intercourse)
2. (obsolete) pure

• castidad
• castigar
• castizo
• incesto

• casta

• “casto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.