raposo

Borrowed from Spanish raposo.

• IPA^(key): /raˈposo/ [raˈpo.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Hyphenation: ra‧po‧so

raposo m (plural raposos, feminine raposa, feminine plural raposas)

1. fox (animal)

   Synonyms: golpe, renarte

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “raposo”, 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), “raposo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “raposo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• raboso, raposso, rraposo, rraposso

Uncertain. Probably from rabo (“tail”) +‎ -oso.

• IPA^(key): /raˈpozo/
• Rhymes: -ozo
• Hyphenation: ra‧po‧so

raposo m (plural raposos, feminine singular raposa, feminine plural raposas)

1. fox

• Spanish: raposo
  • → Galician: raposo
  • → Portuguese: raposo

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “raposo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 426
• “raposo”, in Vocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish), Murcia: University of Murcia, 2013–2024

Borrowed from Spanish raposo.

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: ra‧po‧so

raposo (feminine raposa, masculine plural raposos, feminine plural raposas, metaphonic)

1. foxlike in colour

raposo m (plural raposos, feminine raposa, feminine plural raposas, metaphonic)

1. a male fox (animal)
2. (by extension) crafty / wily person

   Synonym: pessoa manhosa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔzu
• Hyphenation: ra‧po‧so

raposo

1. first-person singular present indicative of raposar

• “raposo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “raposo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish raposo, probably from rabo (“tail”), itself from Latin rāpum (“turnip”). Probably influenced by Asturian rapiega (“fox”) or words related to rapiña and other derivatives of Latin rapiō (“snatch, grab”).^[1][2]

raposo m (plural raposos, feminine raposa, feminine plural raposas)

1. fox

   Synonym: zorro

• → Galician: raposo
• → Portuguese: raposo

• “raposo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025