polvoroso

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish polvoroso.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /pow.voˈɾo.zu/ [poʊ̯.voˈɾo.zu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pow.voˈɾo.zo/ [poʊ̯.voˈɾo.zo]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /pol.vuˈɾo.zu/ [poɫ.vuˈɾo.zu], /pɔl.vuˈɾo.zu/ [pɔɫ.vuˈɾo.zu]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pol.buˈɾo.zu/ [poɫ.βuˈɾo.zu], /pɔl.buˈɾo.zu/ [pɔɫ.βuˈɾo.zu]

Hyphenation: pol‧vo‧ro‧so

Adjective edit

polvoroso (feminine polvorosa, masculine plural polvorosos, feminine plural polvorosas, metaphonic)

dusty

Related terms edit

References edit

^ “polvoroso” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
^ “polvoroso” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From pólvora +‎ -oso.

Adjective edit

polvoroso (feminine polvorosa, masculine plural polvorosos, feminine plural polvorosas)

dusty
Synonym: polvoriento

Derived terms edit

poner pies en polvorosa (“to flee, to run away suddenly and quickly”)

Further reading edit

“polvoroso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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