hambriento

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *faminentus, from Latin famēs. Cognate with Galician famento and Portuguese faminto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˈbɾjento/ [ãmˈbɾjẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: ham‧brien‧to

Adjective

hambriento (feminine hambrienta, masculine plural hambrientos, feminine plural hambrientas)

1. very hungry, famished
2. 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

• Compare tener hambre (“to be hungry”, literally “to have hunger”); estar hambriento (“to be very hungry”); and estar muerto de hambre (“to be starving”). The same happens for sediento (“thirsty”).

Noun

hambriento m (plural hambrientos, feminine hambrienta, feminine plural hambrientas)

1. 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

• hambre
• hambruna

 

Further reading

• “hambriento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014