fogoso
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ozu
- Hyphenation: fo‧go‧so
Adjective edit
fogoso (feminine fogosa, masculine plural fogosos, feminine plural fogosas, metaphonic)
- enthusiastic
- salacious (promoting sexual desire or lust)
- hot-headed
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Calque of French fougueux, from fuego (“fire”) + -oso. The occurrence of fuego is an error; the original term is derived from French fougue (“enthusiasm”), from Italian foga, from Latin fuga (“escape, flight, avoidance”), cognate with English fugue.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
fogoso (feminine fogosa, masculine plural fogosos, feminine plural fogosas)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “fogoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014