vadoso
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FWOTD – 20 September 2013
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”), from vadum (“shallow”) + -ōsus (“-ose”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /vaˈdo.zu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vaˈdo.zo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /vɐˈdo.zu/ [vɐˈðo.zu]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /bɐˈdo.zu/ [bɐˈðo.zu]
- Hyphenation: va‧do‧so
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
- 1865, Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Opusculos historicos e litterarios, 30th chapter, page 121:
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Further reading
- “vadoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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