trevoso

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tẽevroso, from Latin tenebrōsus, from tenebrae (“darkness”). By surface analysis, trevas +‎ -oso. Doublet of tenebroso.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾeˈvo.zu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /tɾeˈvo.zo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɨˈvo.zu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɾɨˈbo.zu/ [tɾɨˈβo.zu]

Rhymes: -ozu
Hyphenation: tre‧vo‧so

Adjective

trevoso (feminine trevosa, masculine plural trevosos, feminine plural trevosas, metaphonic)

synonym of tenebroso

Derived terms

trevosamente

Further reading

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