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viúvo

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin viduus, having developed an epenthetic <v> after the loss of <d>.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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viúvo m (plural viúvos, feminine viúva, feminine plural viúvas)

  1. widower

Derived terms

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Adjective

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viúvo (feminine viúva, masculine plural viúvos, feminine plural viúvas)

  1. widowed

References

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈu.vu/ [vɪˈu.vu], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvju.vu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /viˈu.vo/ [vɪˈu.vo], (faster pronunciation) /ˈvju.vo/
 

  • Rhymes: -uvu
  • Hyphenation: vi‧ú‧vo

Etymology 1

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From Latin viduus, through a Vulgar Latin *viduvus.

Adjective

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viúvo (feminine viúva, masculine plural viúvos, feminine plural viúvas)

  1. widowed (said of a person who is in a state of widowhood)
  2. (figuratively) private
  3. (figuratively) abandoned; helpless
  4. (figuratively, humorous) said of a person who remains an admirer or defender of something or someone who has been ostracized, who has fallen into oblivion (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Noun

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viúvo m (plural viúvos, feminine viúva, feminine plural viúvas)

  1. widower (person whose spouse died and who did not remarry)

Etymology 2

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Verb

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viúvo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of viuvar