venturoso

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 16th century. From ventura +‎ -oso (“fortune”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bentuˈɾosʊ]

Adjective

venturoso (feminine venturosa, masculine plural venturosos, feminine plural venturosas)

1. fortunate, lucky
   • 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

     benturossa foi a cassa
     que tal carne coziñou
     pois que non se enpezoñou

     fortunate was the home
     that such meat cooked
     if it didn't get poisoned

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “venturoso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “venturoso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Etymology

From ventura (“luck, fortune”) +‎ -oso (“-ous”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ven.tuˈro.zo/
• Rhymes: -ozo
• Hyphenation: ven‧tu‧ró‧so

Adjective

venturoso (feminine venturosa, masculine plural venturosi, feminine plural venturose)

1. (poetic) fortunate, lucky

   Synonyms: (archaic) avventurato, (literary) avventuroso, fortunato

   Antonyms: (regional) iellato, (colloquial) scalognato, (colloquial) sfigato, sfortunato, sventurato

   • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “I. All'Italia [1. To Italy]”, in Canti‎^[1], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 5, lines 61–67:

     Oh venturose e care e benedette
     l’antiche etá, che a morte
     per la patria correan le genti a squadre

     Oh fortunate, and blessed, and dear the ancient days, when our people rushed to die in ranks for their homeland

Derived terms

• venturosamente

Related terms

• avventurare
• avventuroso
• ventura

Further reading

• venturoso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

From ventura +‎ -oso.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vẽ.tuˈɾo.zu/

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vẽ.tuˈɾo.zu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vẽ.tuˈɾo.zu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bẽ.tuˈɾo.zu/

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: ven‧tu‧ro‧so

Adjective

venturoso (feminine venturosa, masculine plural venturosos, feminine plural venturosas, metaphonic)

1. fortunate, lucky

Spanish

Etymology

From ventura +‎ -oso.

Adjective

venturoso (feminine venturosa, masculine plural venturosos, feminine plural venturosas)

1. fortunate, lucky
2. stormy

Further reading

• “venturoso”, 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