hambriento
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *faminentus, from Latin famēs. Cognate with Galician famento and Portuguese faminto.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hambriento (feminine hambrienta, masculine plural hambrientos, feminine plural hambrientas)
- very hungry, famished
- hungry
- 1855, Emilio Castelar, Ernesto: novela original de costumbres:
- Yo no tengo pan y estoy hambriento.
- I do not have bread and I'm hungry.
Usage notes
[edit]- Compare tener hambre (“to be hungry”, literally “to have hunger”); estar hambriento (“to be very hungry”); and estar muerto de hambre (“to be starving”).[1] The same happens for sediento (“thirsty”).
Noun
[edit]hambriento m (plural hambrientos, feminine hambrienta, feminine plural hambrientas)
- hungry
- 1657, Baltasar Gracián, “En el invierno de la vejez”, in El Criticón, tercera parte:
- No gusta de los manjares sino el hambriento, y el sediento de la bebida.
- Nobody enjoys tasteful morsels but who is hungry, and beverages who is thirsty.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hambriento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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