asqueroso
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escharōsus, from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”). Indirectly related to English scar.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: as‧que‧ro‧so
Adjective edit
asqueroso (feminine asquerosa, masculine plural asquerosos, feminine plural asquerosas, metaphonic)
- disgusting, repulsive, gross, distasteful
- Synonyms: abominável, nauseante, nojento, repulsivo
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *escharōsus (“full of crusts or scabs, scabby”), from Late Latin eschara (“crust, scab”), from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
asqueroso (feminine asquerosa, masculine plural asquerosos, feminine plural asquerosas)
- disgusting, repulsive, gross, distasteful
- Synonym: repugnante
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter V, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 74:
- El bar tiene un baño turco asqueroso y contengo la respiración mientras meo.
- The bar has a disgusting squat toilet and I hold my breath while I pee.
- 2022 April 23, Carlos Boyero, “Ultracuerpos”, in El País[1]:
- Hay mucha gente, sobre todo ancianos con mínimos recursos, cuya única compañía, su forma de matar el tiempo, es la televisión convencional. Siempre fue asquerosa, pero ahora más.
- There are many people, especially the elderly, with limited means, whose only company, their way of killing time, is mainstream television. This has always been repulsive, but now more so.
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Further reading edit
- “asqueroso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014