fogoso
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ozu
AdjectiveEdit
fogoso (feminine fogosa, masculine plural fogosos, feminine plural fogosas, metaphonic)
- enthusiastic
- salacious (promoting sexual desire or lust)
- hot-headed
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
fogoso (feminine fogosa, masculine plural fogosos, feminine plural fogosas)
- ardent, especially sexually
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “fogoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014