Dictionaries › Latin

ustulo

Pronunciation: [ˈuːs.tʊ.ɫoː]

“ustulo” is a Latin word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to scorch or singe
  2. to burn up; consume with fire

Etymology

Probably from an intermediate *ū̆stulus (“lightly burned”) + -ō, from ū̆stus (perfect passive participle of ūrō (“to burn”)) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). Compare the diminutive participles acūtulus and pressulus.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “ustulo” there

More Latin words

About this dictionary

The Latin dictionary on Glottosphere has 42,428 entries with a page. Browse the Latin dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.