vadoso

vadoso

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”).

Adjective

vadoso (feminine vadosa, masculine plural vadosi, feminine plural vadose)

1. vadose

Related terms

• guado

Anagrams

• dosavo

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Latin

Adjective

vadōsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vadōsus

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Portuguese

FWOTD – 20 September 2013

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”), from vadum (“shallow”) + -ōsus (“-ose”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈdo.zu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈdo.zu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈdo.zo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈdo.zu/ [vɐˈðo.zu]

• Hyphenation: va‧do‧so

Adjective

vadoso (feminine vadosa, masculine plural vadosos, feminine plural vadosas, metaphonic)

1. (of a body of water) full of shallows
   • 1865, Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Opusculos historicos e litterarios, 30^th chapter, page 121:

     […] ; e posto que o rio nesta calorosa estação assás pobre estivesse de suas aguas, e em certos logares tão vadoso que mais não tinha de palmo e meio, era a sua correnteza de tres milhas.

     […] ; and considering that in this hot season the river was lacking so much of its waters, and in certain places so full of shallows that it wasn’t more than one and a half handspans deep, its current was three miles long.

   Synonym: vadeoso

Related terms

• vau

See also

• raso