deleitoso

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese deleytoso. By surface analysis, deleite (“delight”) +‎ -oso (“-ous”).

• IPA^(key): /delejˈtoso/ [d̪e.lejˈt̪o.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Hyphenation: lei‧to‧so

deleitoso (feminine deleitosa, masculine plural deleitosos, feminine plural deleitosas)

1. delightful

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “deleytoso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “deleytoso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “deleitoso”, 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), “deleitoso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From deleite +‎ -oso.

• IPA^(key): /deleiˈtoso/ [d̪e.lei̯ˈt̪o.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: de‧lei‧to‧so

deleitoso (feminine deleitosa, masculine plural deleitosos, feminine plural deleitosas)

1. delightful

   Synonym: delicioso

• “deleitoso”, 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