calloso

Italian

Etymology

From Latin callōsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalˈlo.zo/, (traditional) /kalˈlo.so/
• Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
• Hyphenation: cal‧ló‧so

Adjective

calloso (feminine callosa, masculine plural callosi, feminine plural callose)

1. callous, horny

Related terms

• callo
• callosità

Anagrams

• collosa

Latin

Adjective

callōsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of callōsus

Portuguese

Adjective

calloso (feminine callosa, masculine plural callosos, feminine plural callosas, comparable, metaphonic)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of caloso
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fuga [Escape]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 188:

     Os pés callosos, duros como cascos, mettidos em alpercatas novas, caminhariam mezes.

     His callous feet, hard as hooves, shoved into new espadrilles, would walk for months.

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin callum

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Latin callōsusslbor.

Spanish calloso

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin callōsus. By surface analysis, callo +‎ -oso.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈʝoso/ [kaˈʝo.so]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈʝoso/ [kaˈʝo.so] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈʎoso/ [kaˈʎo.so] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈʃoso/ [kaˈʃo.so] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈʒoso/ [kaˈʒo.so] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /kaˈjoso/ [kaˈjo.so] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: ca‧llo‧so

Adjective

calloso (feminine callosa, masculine plural callosos, feminine plural callosas)

1. calloused
2. callosal

Derived terms

• cuerpo calloso
• subcalloso

Related terms

• callo
• callosidad

Further reading

• “calloso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025