tifoso

English

Alternative forms
  • (fan of an Italian team): tifosi

Etymology

Italian

Noun

tifoso (plural tifosi)

  1. An Italian fan (of a sports club, etc.).
  2. A fan of an Italian club or team, especially Scuderia Ferrari

Italian

Etymology

From tifo +‎ -oso.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiˈfo.zo/, (traditional) /tiˈfo.so/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
  • Hyphenation: ti‧fó‧so

Adjective

tifoso (feminine tifosa, masculine plural tifosi, feminine plural tifose, superlative tifosissimo)

  1. (relational) fan
  2. (pathology) typhous, typhoid

Noun

tifoso m (plural tifosi, feminine tifosa)

  1. fan (of a sports club etc.)

Derived terms

References
  1. tifoso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Portuguese

Adjective

tifoso (feminine tifosa, masculine plural tifosos, feminine plural tifosas, metaphonic)

  1. (medicine) typhous (of or relating to typhus)
    Synonym: tifoide
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