viúvo

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin viduus, having developed an epenthetic <v> after the loss of <d>.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [biˈuβʊ]

Noun

viúvo m (plural viúvos, feminine viúva, feminine plural viúvas)

  1. widower

Derived terms

Adjective

viúvo (feminine viúva, masculine plural viúvos, feminine plural viúvas)

  1. widowed

References
  • “viuva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “viuu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “viúvo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “viúvo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “viúvo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈu.vu/ [vɪˈu.vu], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvju.vu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈu.vo/ [vɪˈu.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)

  1. widowed (said of a person who is in a state of widowhood)
  2. (figuratively) private
  3. (figuratively) abandoned; helpless
  4. (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)

  1. widower (person whose spouse died and who did not remarry)

Verb

viúvo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of viuvar
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