carnavalesco

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian carnevalesco[1][2] By surface analysis, carnaval +‎ -esco.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.na.vaˈles.ku/ [kaɦ.na.vaˈles.ku]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾ.na.vaˈles.ku/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.na.vaˈleʃ.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaɻ.na.vaˈles.ko/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾ.nɐ.vɐˈleʃ.ku/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾ.nɐ.bɐˈleʃ.ku/ [kɐɾ.nɐ.βɐˈleʃ.ku]

Hyphenation: car‧na‧va‧les‧co

Adjective

carnavalesco (feminine carnavalesca, masculine plural carnavalescos, feminine plural carnavalescas)

(relational) carnival

References

“carnavalesco” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
“carnavalesco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From carnaval +‎ -esco.

Adjective

carnavalesco (feminine carnavalesca, masculine plural carnavalescos, feminine plural carnavalescas)

(relational) carnival

Further reading

“carnavalesco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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