combusto

Borrowed from Latin combustus (“burnt”).

• IPA^(key): /komˈbu.sto/
• Rhymes: -usto
• Hyphenation: com‧bù‧sto

combusto (feminine combusta, masculine plural combusti, feminine plural combuste)

1. burnt, burned
   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 73–75; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Poeta fui, e cantai di quel giusto / figliuol d’Anchise che venne di Troia, / poi che ’l superbo Ilïón fu combusto.

     A poet I was, and I sang that just son of Anchises, who came forth from Troy, after that the superb Ilion the was burned.

• combustione
• comburere
• comburente

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

combustō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of combustus