villoso

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin villōsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vilˈlo.zo/, (traditional) /vilˈlo.so/
  • Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
  • Hyphenation: vil‧ló‧so

Adjective

villoso (feminine villosa, masculine plural villosi, feminine plural villose)

  1. hairy
    Synonym: peloso
  2. (anatomy, botany) villous

Further reading

  • villoso in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • villoso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • villoso in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • villoso in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • villoso in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • villoso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

villōsō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of villōsus
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