robusto

Sentences
Meaning

  1. robust, sturdy, rugged (evincing strength; firmly built)
  2. stout, stocky, hardy
  3. (colloquial) strapping

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
ro‧bus‧to
Pronounced as (IPA)
/roˈbusto/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Latin rōbustus (“hard, solid”, literally “oaken, of oak”), derived from rōbur (“hard oak; hardness”), from ruber (“red”) (for its reddish hardwood), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰrós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).

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