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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin viduus, having developed an epenthetic <v> after the loss of <d>.
Pronunciation
Noun
viúvo m (plural viúvos, feminine viúva, feminine plural viúvas)
- widower
Derived terms
Adjective
viúvo (feminine viúva, masculine plural viúvos, feminine plural viúvas)
- widowed
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “viuva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “viuu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “viúvo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “viúvo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “viúvo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈu.vu/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈvju.vu/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈu.vu/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈvju.vu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈu.vo/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈvju.vo/
- Rhymes: -uvu
- Hyphenation: vi‧ú‧vo
Etymology 1
From Latin viduus, through a Vulgar Latin *viduvus.
Adjective
viúvo (feminine viúva, masculine plural viúvos, feminine plural viúvas)
- widowed (said of a person who is in a state of widowhood)
- (figuratively) private
- (figuratively) abandoned; helpless
- (figuratively, humorous) said of a person who remains an admirer or defender of something or someone who has been ostracized, who has fallen into oblivion (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
Noun
viúvo m (plural viúvos, feminine viúva, feminine plural viúvas)
- widower (person whose spouse died and who did not remarry)
Etymology 2
Verb
viúvo
- first-person singular present indicative of viuvar