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robusto

/roˈbusto/

adjective/roˈbusto/

robust, sturdy, rugged (evincing strength; firmly built); stout, stocky, hardy; strapping

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”).