bust English · revision 13287

− It is [[bor|fr|buste]], from Italian [[m|it|busto|t=upper body]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from Latin bustum, a funeral monument, tomb, originally a funeral pyre,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) perhaps short for ambustum, the neuter of ambustus, burned around, past participle of ambūrere, to scorch (see [[combustion]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) or perhaps from Old Latin boro, the early form of ūrō, to burn.^(Etymonline) Hoad calls the Romance word of unknown origin.^(Hoad 1986)