agudo
See also: Agudo
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese agudo, from Latin acūtus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
agudo m (feminine singular aguda, masculine plural agudos, feminine plural agudas)
- acute
- sensitive, smart
- 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 288:
- Et este rey dom Rramiro, por que o seus arangoeses [aujã] por çĩple et que nõ era muy agudo
- And this king Don Ramiro, their Aragonese thought that he was simple and not very smart
- sharp
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 89:
- Quando as ditas llandoas creçeren asy como Nozes, ou mais ou menos, traua dellas llogo et apretaas et fendeas ao llongo con canyuete agudo
- when these growths become big as nuts, give or take, grab them readily and squeeze them and cut them open lengthwise with a sharp knife
ReferencesEdit
- “agudo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “agudo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “agudo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “agudo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “agudo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese agudo, from Latin acūtus.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: a‧gu‧do
AdjectiveEdit
agudo (feminine aguda, masculine plural agudos, feminine plural agudas)
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin acūtus. Cognat with English acute.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
agudo (feminine aguda, masculine plural agudos, feminine plural agudas, superlative agudísimo)
- sharp, pointed, acute (terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily)
- Synonyms: afilado, puntiagudo, punzante
- Antonyms: desafilado, romo
- El cuchillo tenía la punta muy aguda.
- The knife had a very sharp point.
- acute, sharp, witty, keen (intelligent)
- ¡Siempre tiene dichos tan agudos!
- He's always making such witty remarks!
- (of pain) sharp, stabbing, acute, severe
- Synonym: punzante
- (pathology) acute (sudden and intense)
- acute, sharp (sensitive)
- visión aguda ― sharp eyesight
- (sound) high, high-pitched, shrill, sharp, piercing
- (geometry) acute
- (phonetics) having the voiced accent on the last syllable
- Synonym: oxítono
- Coordinate terms: grave/llano, esdrújulo, sobresdrújulo
- (geometry, of an angle) acute (less than 90 degrees)
- Las calles forman un ángulo agudo.
- The two streets form an acute angle.
Derived termsEdit
- acento agudo
- agudamente
- agudeza
- agudizar
- ángulo agudo (“acute angle”)
- infarto agudo de miocardio (“AMI, acute myocardial infarction”)
- puntiagudo
- reactante de fase aguda
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “agudo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014