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

• enviuvar

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/

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvju.vu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvju.vu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbju.bu/ [ˈbju.βu]

• 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)

Etymology 2

Verb

viúvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of viuvar