bondoso
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bondade (“goodness”) + -oso (“-ous”). Piecewise doublet of bondadoso.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ozu
- Hyphenation: bon‧do‧so
Adjective
[edit]bondoso (feminine bondosa, masculine plural bondosos, feminine plural bondosas, metaphonic)
- good, kind, benevolent
- Synonym: bondadoso
- 1859, Casimiro de Abreu, Pois não é?!:
- Ver cair o cedro anoso
Que campeava na serra,
Ver frio baixar à terra
O pobre velho bondoso- Seeing the year-old cedar fall
That prevailed in the mountains,
Seeing cold fall to the ground
The poor good old man
- Seeing the year-old cedar fall