isto
Appearance
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from -isto (“person of profession concerned with”); hence literally “an ‘ist’”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]isto (accusative singular iston, plural istoj, accusative plural istojn)
- A professional, a person who belongs to a profession.
- Voku iston.
- Call a professional.
Interlingua
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]isto
- (demonstrative) this
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈis.toː/, [ˈɪs̠t̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈis.to/, [ˈist̪o]
Pronoun
[edit]istō
References
[edit]- “isto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- isto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Mirandese
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]isto
Synonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]Mirandese demonstratives (edit) | |||||||
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Pronouns | Adverbs | ||||||
Singular | Plural | Neuter | |||||
Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | ||||
Proximal | X | este, aqueste | esta, aquesta | estes, aquestes | estas, aquestas | isto, aquisto | eiqui, acá |
de + X | deste, daqueste | desta, daquesta | destes, daquestes | destas, daquestas | disto, daquisto | deiqui | |
an + X | neste, naqueste | nesta, naquesta | nestes, naquestes | nestas, naquestas | nisto, naquisto | — | |
Medial | X | esse, aquesse | essa, aquessa | esses, aquesses | essas, aquessas | isso, aquisso | alhi, eilhi |
de + X | desse, daquesse | dessa, daquessa | desses, daquesses | dessas, daquessas | disso, daquisso | dalhi, deilhi | |
an + X | nesse, naquesse | nessa, naquessa | nesses, naquesses | nessas, naquessas | nisso, naquisso | — | |
Distal | X | aquel | aqueilha | aqueilhes | aqueilhas | aqueilho, aquilho | alhi, alhá |
de + X | daquel | daqueilha | daqueilhes | daqueilhas | daqueilho, daquilho | dalhi, dalhá | |
an + X | naquel | naqueilha | naqueilhes | naqueilhas | naqueilho, naquilho | — |
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese isto, from Latin istud, neuter of iste (“that”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: (Brazil) -istu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtu
- Hyphenation: is‧to
Audio (São Paulo): (file)
Pronoun
[edit]isto n (indefinite demonstrative pronoun)
- this (the thing here)
- Te entregarei isto. Acho que vale algo.
- I will hand this over to you. I think it’s worth something.
- this (the thing being discussed; the current situation)
- Isto não é fácil.
- This is not easy.
- (obsolete, literature) this sentence, this word, this dictum
Usage notes
[edit]- Mainly used to represent things yet to be explained or introduced (in contrast with este or esta). Also used with objects rather than people.
The following preposition + isto contractions are very common:
Synonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]Portuguese demonstratives (edit) | |||||||
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Pronouns | Adverbs | ||||||
Singular | Plural | Neuter | |||||
Masculine | Feminine | Masculine | Feminine | ||||
Proximal | X | este | esta | estes | estas | isto | aqui, cá |
de + X | deste | desta | destes | destas | disto | daqui | |
em + X | neste | nesta | nestes | nestas | nisto | — | |
Medial | X | esse | essa | esses | essas | isso | aí |
de + X | desse | dessa | desses | dessas | disso | daí | |
em + X | nesse | nessa | nesses | nessas | nisso | — | |
Distal | X | aquele | aquela | aqueles | aquelas | aquilo | ali, lá, acolá |
de + X | daquele | daquela | daqueles | daquelas | daquilo | dali | |
em + X | naquele | naquela | naqueles | naquelas | naquilo | — | |
a + X | àquele | àquela | àqueles | àquelas | àquilo | ||
Anaphoric | X | o | a | os | as | — | — |
de + X | do | da | dos | das | |||
em + X | no | na | nos | nas | |||
a + X | ao | à | aos | às |
Interjection
[edit]isto
- (Brazil) that’s right; that’s correct
- Synonyms: isso, correto, exatamente
- — Você é o filho da Mariana? — Isto.
- “Are you Mariana’s son?” “That’s right.”
- (Brazil) yeah! (expresses happiness with an outcome)
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]isto
Adverb
[edit]ȉsto (Cyrillic spelling и̏сто)
Related terms
[edit]Categories:
- Esperanto back-formations
- Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/isto
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto nouns
- Esperanto terms with usage examples
- Esperanto terms suffixed with -isto
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua pronouns
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin pronoun forms
- Mirandese lemmas
- Mirandese pronouns
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/istu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/istu/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/iʃtu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/iʃtu/2 syllables
- Portuguese terms with audio pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese pronouns
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- Portuguese terms with obsolete senses
- pt:Literature
- Portuguese interjections
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese demonstrative pronouns
- Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms
- Serbo-Croatian adjective forms
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian adverbs