querido
Galician edit
Participle edit
querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas)
- past participle of querer
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Past participle of querer. Displaced expected *quesido.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas)
Noun edit
querido m (plural queridos, feminine querida, feminine plural queridas)
Participle edit
querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas)
- past participle of querer
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Past participle of querer. Displaced old quisto.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas, superlative queridísimo)
- dear (also used in letter introductions, etc.)
- (colloquial, Colombia) handsome (guy), beautiful (girl)
Derived terms edit
- cercano y querido (“near and dear”)
- ser querido
Noun edit
querido m (plural queridos, feminine querida, feminine plural queridas)
- sweetheart
- lover
- the letter Q in the Spanish spelling alphabet
Participle edit
querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas)
- past participle of querer
Further reading edit
- “querido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014