vertiginoso
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin vertīginōsus, derived from vertīgō.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ver.ti.d͡ʒiˈno.zo/, (traditional) /ver.ti.d͡ʒiˈno.so/
- Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
- Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧gi‧nó‧so
Adjective edit
vertiginoso (feminine vertiginosa, masculine plural vertiginosi, feminine plural vertiginose)
- dizzy, dizzying, vertiginous, giddy
- enormous, stunning, staggering, plunging
- explosive, rapid, breakneck
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Latin edit
Adjective edit
vertīginōsō
Noun edit
vertīginōsō m
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin vertiginōsus, from vertīgō (“dizziness”), from vertō (“to revolve”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ozu
- Hyphenation: ver‧ti‧gi‧no‧so
Adjective edit
vertiginoso (feminine vertiginosa, masculine plural vertiginosos, feminine plural vertiginosas, metaphonic)
- vertiginous (inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo)
- Synonyms: atordoante, estonteante, tonteante
- (figurative) happening very fast and intensely
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin vertiginōsus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
vertiginoso (feminine vertiginosa, masculine plural vertiginosos, feminine plural vertiginosas)
- vertiginous (pertaining or related to vertigo)
- dizzying, vertiginous, giddy (inducing a feeling of giddiness, vertigo, or dizzyness)
- Synonym: mareante
- suffering from vertigo
- Synonym: mareado
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Further reading edit
- “vertiginoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014