astroso

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese astroso, from Hispanic Late Latin astrōsus (“ill-starred”), from astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asˈtɾoso̝/

Adjective

astroso (feminine astrosa, masculine plural astrosos, feminine plural astrosas)

1. ill-starred, star-crossed, unfortunate, unlucky
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 438:

     Os arcabatidas son moyto astrosa gente, ca andan apremjdos assý cõmo bestas, et o mays uello deles nõ uiuerá dez ãnos

     The Arcabatides are very unfortunate people, cause they walk crouched as beasts, and the older one of them doesn't live for ten years

2. (archaic) vile, despicable
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 108:

     Et algũu mouro astroso, que sabe fazer estas cousas, fezo aquela uisom vijr pelo aere por nos espantar cõ esta arteria.

     And some despicable Moor, who knows how to do this things, made this vision that came by the air, to scare us with this trick

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “astroso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “astros”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “astroso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “astroso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Old Galician-Portuguese

FWOTD – 24 March 2014

Etymology

From Latin astrōsus (“ill-starred”), from astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as̺ˈtɾozo/

Adjective

astroso

1. ill-starred, unfortunate
   • 1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, King Denis of Portugal, B 1540: Disse-m'oj'un cavaleyro (facsimile)

     E iaz ora o astroso / Mui doente […]

     And now, the unfortunate man lies very sick […]

2. vile, despicable, infamous
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 47 (facsimile):

     tolt aſtroſo / ⁊ logo te deſfaz.

     Scat, infamous creature, disappear right now!

Descendants

• Galician: astroso
• Portuguese: astroso

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese astroso, from Latin astrōsus (“ill-starred”), from astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”). Cognate with Galician and Spanish astroso.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /asˈtɾo.zu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /asˈtɾo.zu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʃˈtɾo.zu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /asˈtɾo.zo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐʃˈtɾo.zu/

• Hyphenation: as‧tro‧so

Adjective

astroso (feminine astrosa, masculine plural astrosos, feminine plural astrosas, metaphonic)

1. ill-starred, unfortunate

   (Can we find and add a quotation of José Saramago to this entry?)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin astrōsus.

Adjective

astroso (feminine astrosa, masculine plural astrosos, feminine plural astrosas)

1. dirty, unkempt

   Synonym: zarrapastroso

2. unfortunate, ill-fated

Related terms

• astro

 

Further reading

• “astroso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28