santo

Spanish santo

santo (plural santos)

1. (art) A wooden or ivory statue of a saint, angel or other religious figure, found in Spain and former Spanish colonies.
   • 1972, Shirley Glubok, The Art of the Spanish in the United States and Puerto Rico:

     A santo may get a new coat of paint on its feast day or at Christmas. Or sometimes, when a prayer has been granted, a Puerto Rican repays his santo with a fresh coat of paint.

• vin santo, Vin Santo

• Aston, Stano, aston, natos, tonas

santo

1. neuter of santu

From Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas)

1. holy, sacred

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. saint

• “santo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

From Portuguese santo (“male saint”), from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsan.to]
• Hyphenation: san‧to

santo m (plural santo-santo, para santo)

1. saint (male)

   Santo Petrus ― Saint Peter

• santu

• “santo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin sānctus.

santo

1. holy

• san (Saint, before a consonant (except preconsonantal s))
• sant' (Saint, before a vowel)
• S. (Saint, abbreviation)

From Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.to/
• Rhymes: -anto
• Hyphenation: sàn‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santi, feminine plural sante, superlative santissimo)

1. holy

santo m (plural santi, feminine santa)

1. saint
2. (before a name of a saint or in place names, often capitalized) Saint

• beato
• sacro

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

• stano, stanò, stona

Inherited from Latin sanctus.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈsandə], (in sandhi) [-u]
  • (feminine) IPA^(key): [ˈsandə], (in sandhi) [-a]

santo (feminine singular santa, plural sante)

1. holy

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 800: “la pila dell'acqua santa” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Ledgeway, Adam (2009) Grammatica diacronica del napoletano, Tübingen: Niemeyer, pages 80, 82

santo

1. nominative singular/plural masculine of santa, which is present active participle of atthi (“to be”)
2. nominative singular masculine of santa (“calm”), which is past participle of sammati (“to be calmed”)
3. nominative singular masculine of santa (“tired”), which is past participle of sammati (“to be tired”)

• sancto (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• Homophone: Santo
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
• Hyphenation: san‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas, comparable, comparative mais santo, superlative o mais santo or santíssimo, diminutive santinho)

1. holy, sacred
   1. dedicated to a religious purpose or a god; religious

      Synonym: religioso

      Antonyms: laico, secular

   2. flawless from a religious point of view

      Synonyms: perfeito, puro

   3. designed or exalted by a divine sanction; venerable

      Synonyms: sagrado, sacro, venerável

   4. (of a day) during which one must dedicate himself to religion, rather than work
   5. saintly; relating to saints
2. (figuratively) pure, immaculate, undefiled
   1. innocent

      Synonyms: puro, inocente

      Antonyms: impuro, pecador, réprobo

   2. chaste

      Synonyms: puro, casto, imaculado

      Antonyms: impuro, libidinoso

• (antonym(s) of “flawless from a religious point of view”): impuro, pecador, réprobo

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. (Roman Catholicism) someone who has been formally canonised by the Catholic Church
2. (Candomblé, Afro-Brazilian religion) orisha (deities in the Yoruba religion)
3. saint (a virtuous or holy person)
4. an extremely kind individual

• Kadiwéu: xaanto

• “santo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• sancto (obsolete)

From earlier sancto, from Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/ [ˈsãn̪.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -anto
• Syllabification: san‧to

santo (feminine santa, masculine plural santos, feminine plural santas, superlative santísimo)

1. holy, godly

santo m (plural santos, feminine santa, feminine plural santas)

1. male saint
2. name day

   Synonym: onomástica

• sacro
• sagrado

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

• Santo
• Sto. — abbreviation

Borrowed from Spanish santo, from Old Spanish sancto, from Latin sānctus.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsanto/ [ˈsan.to], /sanˈto/ [sɐnˈto]
• Rhymes: -anto, -o
• Syllabification: san‧to

santo or santó (feminine santa, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. saint (especially a male saint)
2. image or statue of a saint

santo or santó (feminine santa, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆᜓ)

1. referring to an important figure, item, or event which had a masculine gender in Spanish: holy; sacred (used in certain expressions)

   Synonym: banal

• “santo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018