hondo

See also: Hondo

Japanese

Romanization

hondo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほんど

Shona

Noun

hondo

1. war

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish fondo, from Latin fundus, with the Latin noun taking on an adjectival sense in Spanish.

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn

An alternative theory sees the Old Spanish fondo as a shortening of an earlier, pre-literary *perfondo, from the Latin adjective profundus instead, which matches with the sense of the word better; however, this is uncertain. The word profundo is a neologism later borrowed from Latin. Cf. also the Spanish noun fondo (“bottom”), which may have preserved the old initial 'f' to distinguish it from the adjective hondo, its doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈondo/ [ˈõn̪.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -ondo
• Syllabification: hon‧do

Adjective

hondo (feminine honda, masculine plural hondos, feminine plural hondas, superlative hondísimo)

1. deep
   • 2023 November 12, Xosé Hermida, “La derecha despliega todas sus redes para deslegitimar a Sánchez”, in El País‎^[1]:

     El comisario de Justicia, liberal y con buena relación con el PP, ha pedido explicaciones al Gobierno en una insólita carta que ha provocado un hondo malestar en La Moncloa.

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2. profound

   Synonym: profundo

Derived terms

• ahondar
• hondón
• hondura

 

Related terms

• fondo

 

Adverb

hondo

1. deeply

Derived terms

• calar hondo

 

Further reading

• “hondo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10