medroso
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese mederoso, medoroso, from Vulgar Latin *metōrōsum, derived from Latin metus (“fear”, noun).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]medroso (feminine medrosa, masculine plural medrosos, feminine plural medrosas)
References
[edit]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “medroso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mederos”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “medroso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “medroso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “medroso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese mederoso, medoroso, from Vulgar Latin *metōrōsum, derived from Latin metus (“fear”, noun).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ozu
- Hyphenation: me‧dro‧so
Adjective
[edit]medroso (feminine medrosa, masculine plural medrosos, feminine plural medrosas, metaphonic)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Spanish medroso, from Vulgar Latin *metōrōsum, derived from Latin metus (“fear”, noun).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]medroso (feminine medrosa, masculine plural medrosos, feminine plural medrosas)
- fearful, timid
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- No ceso de pensar en las florecillas de los prados, tan bonitas y tan felices, pero que, según me parece a mí, han de estar siempre medrosas y temblando, no sea que las pise la planta del buey que ven acercarse... Yo tiemblo, yo veo llegar el pesado pie del buey...
- I never stop thinking about the little meadow-flowers, [which are] so pretty and joyful, but which (so it seems to me) must always be fearful and trembling, lest they be trampled by the hoof of the cow that they see approaching them... I tremble, [for] I see the heavy foot of the cow coming [for me].
Further reading
[edit]- “medroso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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