guloso

See also: gulošo and guļošo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gulōsus. By surface analysis, gula (“gluttony”) +‎ -oso (“-ous”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡuˈlo.zu/

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: gu‧lo‧so

Adjective

guloso (feminine gulosa, masculine plural gulosos, feminine plural gulosas, comparable, comparative mais guloso, superlative o mais guloso or gulosíssimo, metaphonic)

1. gluttonous; greedy (prone to excessive eating)

   Synonyms: voraz, (slang) zoião, esfomeado

2. sweet-toothed (fond of sweet, sugar foods)

Inflection

Forms of guloso

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
positive	guloso	gulosa	gulosos	gulosas
comparative	mais guloso	mais gulosa	mais gulosos	mais gulosas
superlative	gulosíssimo	gulosíssima	gulosíssimos	gulosíssimas
augmentative	gulosão	gulosona	gulosões	gulosonas
diminutive	gulosinho	gulosinha	gulosinhos	gulosinhas

Derived terms

• gulosamente

Related terms

• gula

Further reading

• “guloso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025