enjuto

See also: enjutó

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enˈxuto/ [ẽŋˈxu.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -uto
• Syllabification: en‧ju‧to

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish enxuto, from Latin exsūctus, perfect passive participle of exsūgō, from ex + sūgō. Compare Portuguese enxuto, Catalan eixut, Italian asciutto. In pre-literary Spanish, the word likely had the form *eissuito (compare also Old Galician-Portuguese enxoyto, Galician enxoito), and then underwent a change of prefix through influence from enjugar (the same process affecting other Ibero-Romance languages), with the ending being influenced by past participles such as roto, escrito, frito, etc. (as normally the Latin consonant cluster -ct- yields -ch- in Spanish; a form ensucho was attested, and ensuchu is used in Asturian, where it became the irregular past participle of ensugar).

Adjective

enjuto (feminine enjuta, masculine plural enjutos, feminine plural enjutas)

1. shriveled
2. dry
3. withered, skinny, skin and bones

Derived terms

• enjutar
• no se pescan truchas a bragas enjutas

 

See also

• enjugar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

enjuto

1. first-person singular present indicative of enjutar

Further reading

• “enjuto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28