afectuoso

afectuoso (feminine afectuosa, masculine plural afectuosos, feminine plural afectuosas, metaphonic)

1. (European Portuguese spelling) Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of afetuoso. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Borrowed from Latin affectuōsus (“affectionate”). By surface analysis, afecto +‎ -oso.

• IPA^(key): /afeɡˈtwoso/ [a.feɣ̞ˈt̪wo.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: a‧fec‧tuo‧so

afectuoso (feminine afectuosa, masculine plural afectuosos, feminine plural afectuosas)

1. affectionate

   Synonyms: cariño, querendón (Latin America)

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