asto

• arsto (Souletin)

Uncertain. At least two proposals exist:

1. from Spanish asno or Latin asinus, although phonetically improbable;
2. from hartz (“bear”) +‎ -to (diminutive suffix), phonetically impeccable, but semantically strange.

If the second is correct, then may be related to Aquitanian *asto, found in *Asto-ilunno.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /as̺to/, [as̺.t̪o̞]

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asto anim

1. donkey

• “asto”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

asto (Beaujolais, Graphie de Conflans)

1. Alternative form of achetar (“to buy”) documented in the following location(s): Belleroche

asto

1. Nonstandard spelling of asta. Romanization of ꦲꦱ꧀ꦠ

• adsto

From ad- +‎ stō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈas.toː/, [ˈäs̠t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.to/, [ˈäst̪o]

astō (present infinitive astāre, perfect active astitī); first conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal in the passive

1. to stand at, on, by

   Synonym: stō

2. to be present

   Synonyms: subsum, adsum, stō, exstō

   Antonym: desum

3. to stand near, stand close to

   Synonyms: immineō, contingō, īnstō

   Antonyms: dissideō, distō

4. to be standing, upright
5. to assist

• astator
• astatus

• Aromanian: adastu, adãstari
• Romanian: adăsta, adăstare

• asto in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “asto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “asto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "asto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• asto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.