"vast" in seven languages
Meaningvast
Spanish
vasto
/ˈbasto/
learned
Often placed before the noun: un vasto territorio.
French
vaste
/vast/
learned
Italian
vasto
/ˈvasto/
learned
Portuguese
vasto
/ˈvastu/
learned
Romanian
vast
/vast/
learned
Catalan
vast
/bast/
learned
English
vast
/væst/
from Latin/French · Latin vastus
English → ItalianvastvastoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
VASTUM‘empty, desolate; huge’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
VASTUS first meant 'empty, laid waste', which is why devastate means to ruin. English waste goes back to the same word through Norman French.
English relatives: devastate, waste
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In a sentence
- esEl Sáhara es un vasto desierto.
- frLe Sahara est un vaste désert.
- itIl Sahara è un vasto deserto.
- ptO Saara é um vasto deserto.
- roSahara este un deșert vast.
- caEl Sàhara és un desert vast.
- enThe Sahara is a vast desert.
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