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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”).
Adjective
vadoso (feminine vadosa, masculine plural vadosi, feminine plural vadose)
- vadose
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
vadōsō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vadōsus
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”), from vadum (“shallow”) + -ōsus (“-ose”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
See also
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈdoso/
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: va‧do‧so
Adjective
vadoso (feminine vadosa, masculine plural vadosos, feminine plural vadosas)
- vadose
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