fogoso
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ozu
Adjective
fogoso (feminine fogosa, masculine plural fogosos, feminine plural fogosas, metaphonic)
- enthusiastic
- salacious (promoting sexual desire or lust)
- hot-headed
Spanish
Etymology
Calque of French fougueux, from fuego (“fire”) + -oso. The occurrence of fuego is an error; the original term is derived from French fougue (“enthusiasm”), from Italian foga, from Latin fuga (“escape, flight, avoidance”), cognate with English fugue.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /foˈɡoso/ [foˈɣ̞o.so]
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: fo‧go‧so
Adjective
fogoso (feminine fogosa, masculine plural fogosos, feminine plural fogosas)
- ardent, especially sexually
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fogoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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