doloroso

Borrowed from Italian.

doloroso (not comparable)

1. (music) plaintively; pathetically

From dolor (“pain”) +‎ -oso. Displaced the inherited Old Galician-Portuguese dooroso.

• IPA^(key): [doloˈɾosʊ]

doloroso (feminine dolorosa, masculine plural dolorosos, feminine plural dolorosas)

1. painful

   Synonym: penoso

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “doloroso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Late Latin dolōrōsus (“painful; sorrowful”), from Latin dolor.

• IPA^(key): /do.loˈro.zo/, (traditional) /do.loˈro.so/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
• Hyphenation: do‧lo‧ró‧so

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doloroso (feminine dolorosa, masculine plural dolorosi, feminine plural dolorose, superlative dolorosissimo)

1. painful
2. distressing

• dolorosamente

• dolore

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

dolōrōsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dolōrōsus

Learned borrowing from Late Latin dolōrōsus (“painful”), from Latin dolor (“pain; grief”) + -ōsus (“-ous”). Displaced the inherited Old Galician-Portuguese dooroso.

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: do‧lo‧ro‧so

doloroso (feminine dolorosa, masculine plural dolorosos, feminine plural dolorosas, metaphonic)

1. painful (causing pain)

   Synonym: dolorido

   Antonym: indolor

   Ferida dolorosa.

   Painful wound.

2. hurtful (hurting someone’s feelings)

   Synonym: dolorido

   Insulto doloroso.

   Hurtful insult.

3. dolorous (solemnly or ponderously sad)

   Synonym: dorido

   Suspiro doloroso.

   Dolorous sigh.

Inherited from Late Latin dolōrōsus (“painful; sorrowful”), from Latin dolor.

• IPA^(key): /doloˈɾoso/ [d̪o.loˈɾo.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: do‧lo‧ro‧so

doloroso (feminine dolorosa, masculine plural dolorosos, feminine plural dolorosas, superlative dolorosísimo)

1. painful

• “doloroso”, 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