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Italian
Etymology
From Latin callōsus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kalˈlo.zo/, (traditional) /kalˈlo.so/
- Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
- Hyphenation: cal‧ló‧so
Adjective
calloso (feminine callosa, masculine plural callosi, feminine plural callose)
- callous, horny
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
callōsō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of callōsus
Portuguese
Adjective
calloso (feminine callosa, masculine plural callosos, feminine plural callosas, comparable, metaphonic)
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of caloso.
1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fuga [Escape]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 188:Os pés callosos, duros como cascos, mettidos em alpercatas novas, caminhariam mezes.- His callous feet, hard as hooves, shoved into new espadrilles, would walk for months.
Spanish
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin callōsus. By surface analysis, callo + -oso.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaˈʝoso/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kaˈʎoso/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈʃoso/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʒoso/
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: ca‧llo‧so
Adjective
calloso (feminine callosa, masculine plural callosos, feminine plural callosas)
- callosal
- calloused
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