susto

English

Noun

susto (uncountable)

  1. An illness in Latin American cultures, a condition of fear and chronic somatic suffering stemming from one's own or others' emotional trauma.

Anagrams

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsus.tu/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈsuʃ.tu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsus.to/

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ustu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃtu
  • Hyphenation: sus‧to

Etymology 1

Deverbal from sustar.

Noun

susto m (plural sustos)

  1. fright, scare
  2. fear, terror

Verb

susto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sustar

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Several theories exist. Possibly an expressive creation, or from a verb *sustar, from Latin suscitāre[1] (though this is unlikely), or perhaps from substāre.[2] Compare Portuguese susto.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsusto/ [ˈsus.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -usto
  • Syllabification: sus‧to

Noun

susto m (plural sustos)

  1. fright

Derived terms

References
  1. “susto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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