eroso

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

Past participle of erodere.

eroso (feminine erosa, masculine plural erosi, feminine plural erose)

1. past participle of erodere

eroso (feminine erosa, masculine plural erosi, feminine plural erose)

1. eroded

From Latin aerōsus (“full of copper”), derived from aes (“copper; bronze; brass”).

eroso (feminine erosa, masculine plural erosi, feminine plural erose)

1. (literary) containing copper (of coins)
   • 1804, Cesare Beccaria, “Parte quarta, Capitolo II. “Della moneta” [Fourth part, Chapter 2: “Of the coin”]”, in Elementi di economia pubblica [Elements of Public Economics]‎^[1], collected in Opere di Cesare Beccaria – volume secondo, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, published 1822, page 271:

     monete […] miste di molto rame e di pochissimo argento, e tali monete furono chiamate monete erose nel linguaggio economico

     Coins with much copper and very little silver, and such coins were dubbed “coppery coins” in the argot of economics

• oserò, roseo

ērōsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ērōsus

eroso (feminine erosa, masculine plural erosos, feminine plural erosas)

1. erose