caloso
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- calloso (pre-reform spelling)
Etymology
From calo (“callus”) + -oso (“-ous”)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈlo.zu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈlo.zo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈlo.zu/
- Rhymes: -ozu
- Hyphenation: ca‧lo‧so
Adjective
caloso (feminine calosa, masculine plural calosos, feminine plural calosas, comparable, metaphonic)
- callous (having calli)
- Synonym: calejado
- 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fuga [Escape]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 188:
- Os pés callosos, duros como cascos, mettidos em alpercatas novas, caminhariam mezes.
- His callous feet, hard as hooves, shoved into new espadrilles, would walk for months.
Derived terms
- calosamente