Those who watched films regularly with Adriano Celentano will probably remember that the meaning of the word “basta” is “enough”, “enough”, “enough”. In other words, this is a signal to a person to stop, stop doing what he is doing. Let's talk today in detail about this foreign-language definition.
Origin
There are two points of view on this issue:
- Initially, it came to us with a card game in which they loved to fight at the court of Catherine the Second. The name of that game is the ombre. The basta in it was called the ace of crosses. For reference: the rules of Catherine the Second from 1762 to 1796. Dates are needed in order for the reader to navigate in temporary space.
- Since the beginning of the 19th century, the word has been included in the spoken language and means the same as in the language from which it came (Italian), that is, “enough”, “enough”.
And since we are talking about the meaning of the word “basta,” we cannot help but recall the wonderful novel by I. S. Turgenev, “Fathers and Sons,” because it is thanks to him that we know about this exclamation.
Value
By the end of his life, Bazarov came to the surprisingly perspicacious conclusion that everything but death could be denied. No wonder I. S. Turgenev liked M. Heidegger so much. By the way, the German philosopher notes that the term "nihilism" was first spoken in the novel of the Russian classic. And yes, we do not quote that place in the novel where exactly the word “basta” is, for there is no need for it. Everyone who completed the school program knows the episode in which the main character meets the inevitability of death and the senselessness of its denial.
Let the reader not be angry with us for repeating, but we will nevertheless speak about the meaning of the word “basta” separately. The object of our study has two meanings:
- A person makes it clear to the interlocutor that he stops something, stops. It is also expressed that patience has come to an end.
- The same as "only and everything", "nothing more."
By the way, Evgeny Vasilievich Bazarov uses the second meaning of the word.
Where does etymology lead
It is interesting to study the etymology of words. The reader will now understand why. One-root with the object of study are: the noun "strike" and the verb "strike". And this, in turn, leads to an interesting idea: people, it turns out, are on strike because they can no longer tolerate. But if we ask about the reasons for the popular demarche of politicians, they will say that such behavior is only because people are harmful and they have only a few. But etymology and language cannot deceive: basta means patience is over, and the last resort is used - protest!
Despite the fact that the word is foreign, we have learned its lexical meaning. The word "basta" - "an exclamation in the meaning is enough, enough, over," says the authoritative explanatory dictionary.