Estonian

Noun

vastus ‎(genitive vastuse, partitive vastust)

1. answer, response

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Finnish

(index va)

Etymology

< vastustaa ‎(“to oppose, hinder”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋɑstus]
• Hyphenation: vas‧tus

Noun

vastus

1. resistor (electronic component)
2. resistance (the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist)
3. resistance (in physics, force that tends to oppose motion)
4. resistance (in physics, electrical resistance)
5. drag (resistance of air or other fluid to something moving in it)
6. opposition (opposing side in competition)
7. element (short form of heating element)

Declension

Synonyms

• (drag): ilmanvastus (of air), veden vastus (of water); väliaineen vastus (general)
• (opposition): vastustaja

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weh₂st- ‎(“empty, wasted”). Cognate with English waste, German Wüste and Albanian vjeshtë ‎(“autumn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwas.tus/, [ˈwas.tʊs]

Adjective

vastus m ‎(feminine vasta, neuter vastum); first/second declension

1. empty, unoccupied
2. wasted, deserted
3. vast, immense

Inflection

First/second declension.

Derived terms

• vastō

Descendants

• English: vast
• French: vaste
• Italian: vasto
• Portuguese: vasto
• Spanish: vasto
• Romanian: vast

References

• vastus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vastus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vastus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.