tieso

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish teso, attested from the 1300s (in the Sumas de historia troyana, and later the Rimado de Palacio), inherited from Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tenso. Coromines & Pascual have Cristóbal de las Casas's Vocabulario de las lenguas española y toscana (1570) as their first known attestation with the diphthong -ie-, a development perhaps influenced by the conjugation él/ella tiende, of tender.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtjeso/
  • Rhymes: -eso
  • Syllabification: tie‧so

Adjective

tieso (feminine tiesa, masculine plural tiesos, feminine plural tiesas)

  1. stiff, rigid
    Synonyms: rígido, inflexible
    Me preocupa que sus codos estén tan tiesos, doctor.
    Doctor, I'm worried her elbows are so stiff.
    El material es demasiado tieso; necesitamos otro.
    The material is too stiff; we need another one.
  2. starched, very formal
    Escribe con excelentes detalles, pero con un estilo tieso.
    He writes including excellent details, but his style is too formal.
  3. strong-willed, stubborn
  4. (colloquial) frozen solid, rigid due to cold
    Dejaste tan atrás la leche en el estante del refrigerador que ahora está tiesa.
    You left the milk so far back in the fridge shelf that it's now frozen solid.
  5. (slang) erect, hard, stiff (having an erect penis; translates in some contexts to erection, boner, stiffy)
    Lo tengo tieso.
    I've got a boner.
  6. (colloquial) dead
    Synonym: muerto
    Mira si está tieso.
    Check if he's dead.
  7. (colloquial) in shock, astonished
    Los dejaste tiesos cuando los apantallaste con tus rimas improvisadas.
    You left them in shock when you impressed them with your improvised rhymes.
  8. (colloquial) broke, skint (without money)
    Synonym: pelado

Derived terms

Related terms

Noun

tieso m (plural tiesos)

  1. A snake eel

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