masto

Borrowed from German Mast and English mast, both from Proto-Germanic *mastaz. Compare French mât, Polish maszt, Russian ма́чта (máčta).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmasto]

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• Rhymes: -asto
• Hyphenation: mas‧to

masto (accusative singular maston, plural mastoj, accusative plural mastojn)

1. (nautical) mast

Borrowed from Old Swedish mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”). See also the etymology section of mast.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑsto/, [ˈmɑ̝s̠to̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑsto
• Hyphenation^(key): mas‧to

masto

1. mast (tall, slim post or tower)

• “masto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

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Borrowed from Esperanto masto, English mast, German Mast, Spanish mástil.

masto (plural masti)

1. (nautical) mast

• Hyphenation: mas‧to

masto m (plural mastos)

1. Archaic form of mastro.