-acho
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Suffix edit
-acho m (noun-forming suffix, plural -achos, feminine -acha, feminine plural -achas)
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin -āceus. Cognate to Galician and Spanish -azo, Portuguese -aço, French -asse and Italian -accio.
Suffix edit
-acho m (noun-forming suffix, plural -achos)
- initially augmentative suffix; forms pejoratives from nouns and adjectives.
Usage notes edit
- Used especially after masculine nouns. Compare -acha.
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “-acho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese suffixes
- Portuguese noun-forming suffixes
- Portuguese countable suffixes
- Portuguese masculine suffixes
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish suffixes
- Spanish noun-forming suffixes
- Spanish countable suffixes
- Spanish masculine suffixes
- Spanish pejorative suffixes