vadoso
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”).
Adjective edit
vadoso (feminine vadosa, masculine plural vadosi, feminine plural vadose)
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Latin edit
Adjective edit
vadōsō
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”), from vadum (“shallow”) + -ōsus (“-ose”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: va‧do‧so
Adjective edit
vadoso (feminine vadosa, masculine plural vadosos, feminine plural vadosas, metaphonic)
- (of a body of water) full of shallows
- 1865, Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Opusculos historicos e litterarios, 30th chapter, page 121:
- […] ; e posto que o rio nesta calorosa estação assás pobre estivesse de suas aguas, e em certos logares tão vadoso que mais não tinha de palmo e meio, era a sua correnteza de tres milhas.
- […] ; and considering that in this hot season the river was lacking so much of its waters, and in certain places so full of shallows that it wasn’t more than one and a half handspans deep, its current was three miles long.
- Synonym: vadeoso
- 1865, Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Opusculos historicos e litterarios, 30th chapter, page 121:
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Adjective edit
vadoso (feminine vadosa, masculine plural vadosos, feminine plural vadosas)
Further reading edit
- “vadoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014