generoso
See also: Generoso
Galician
Adjective
generoso (feminine generosa, masculine plural generosos, feminine plural generosas, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of xeneroso
Further reading
- “generoso” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒe.neˈro.zo/, (traditional) /d͡ʒe.neˈro.so/[1]
- Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
- Hyphenation: ge‧ne‧ró‧so
Adjective
generoso (feminine generosa, masculine plural generosi, feminine plural generose, superlative generosissimo)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ generoso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
- generoso in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- generoso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Adjective
generōsō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of generōsus
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin generōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒe.neˈɾo.zu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒe.neˈɾo.zo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʒɨ.nɨˈɾo.zu/
- Rhymes: -ozu
- Hyphenation: ge‧ne‧ro‧so
Adjective
generoso (feminine generosa, masculine plural generosos, feminine plural generosas, metaphonic)
- generous (willing to give and share unsparingly)
- Synonyms: dadivoso, mão-aberta
- (obsolete) generous (of noble birth)
- Synonym: nobre
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:generoso.
Related terms
Further reading
- “generoso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “generoso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “generoso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xeneˈɾoso/ [xe.neˈɾo.so]
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: ge‧ne‧ro‧so
Adjective
generoso (feminine generosa, masculine plural generosos, feminine plural generosas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “generoso”, 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