timorato

Italian

Adjective

timorato (feminine timorata, masculine plural timorati, feminine plural timorate)

1. conscientious

Derived terms

• timorato di Dio

Anagrams

• ottriamo

Latin

Adjective

timōrātō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of timōrātus

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin timōrātus (“God-fearing”).

Adjective

timorato (feminine timorata, masculine plural timoratos, feminine plural timoratas)

1. shy; weak-willed
   • 1999, Pascal Quignard, El Odio a la Musica: Diez Pequenos Tratados:

     En Roma se consideraba que los ciervos eran animales timoratos, indignos de los senadores (que preferían los jabalíes), porque huían al ser atacados y supuestamente adoraban la música

     In Rome, deer were considered to be shy animals, unworthy of the senators (who preferred boars), because they fled when attacked and apparently loved music

2. prudish
3. god-fearing
   • 1882, José Zorrilla, La leyenda del Cid:

     Llegó el enviado apostólico
     a Burgos; muy reverente
     le recibió el Rey, y el Nuncio
     le mostró mucho copete.
     Temblaron los timoratos,
     se ofendieron los prudentes,
     indignáronse los nobles:

     The apostolic dispatch arrived
     to Burgos; very reverently
     it received the King, and the Nuncio
     showed him much quiff.
     The god-fearers shook,
     the prudent ones were offended,
     the nobles were indignated:

Derived terms

• timoratamente

 

Further reading

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