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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese espantoso (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): diachronically espanto + -oso.
Pronunciation
Adjective
espantoso (feminine espantosa, masculine plural espantosos, feminine plural espantosas)
- dreadful
- terrifying
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “espantoso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “espantoso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “espantoso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “espantoso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “espantoso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Etymology
From espanto (“amazement”) + -oso.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: es‧pan‧to‧so
Adjective
espantoso (feminine espantosa, masculine plural espantosos, feminine plural espantosas, metaphonic)
- amazing
- Synonym: incrível
Spanish
Etymology
From espanto (“fright”) + -oso.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /espanˈtoso/
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: es‧pan‧to‧so
Adjective
espantoso (feminine espantosa, masculine plural espantosos, feminine plural espantosas)
- ghastly, gruesome, dreadful, awful, godawful, horrific, horrendous, horrible, terrible
- Synonyms: horrible, horripilante, horroroso, horrendo, terrible
- frightful, frightening, scary, fearful, terrifying, shocking
- Synonyms: aterrador, terrorífico
- hideous, appalling, atrocious, horrid
- Synonym: atroz
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