enjuto

• IPA^(key): /enˈxuto/, [ẽŋˈxut̪o]

From Old Spanish enxuto, from Latin exsūctus, past 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 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)[1].

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

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

• enjutar

• enjugar

See the etymology of the main entry.

enjuto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of enjutar.

• “enjuto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.