vastus

vastus

1. (anatomy) One of the great muscles upon the front of the thigh.

• ustavs

vastus (genitive vastuse, partitive vastust)

1. answer, response

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

< vastustaa (“to oppose, hinder”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋɑstus]
• Hyphenation: 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)

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

From Proto-Indo-European *weh₂st- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with English waste, German Wüste.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwas.tus/, [ˈwas.tʊs]

vastus (feminine vasta, neuter vastum); first/second declension

1. empty, unoccupied
2. wasted, deserted
3. vast, immense

First/second declension.

• vastō

• English: vast
• French: vaste
• Italian: vasto
• Portuguese: vasto
• Spanish: vasto
• Romanian: vast

• 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