intenso

Learned borrowing from Latin intensus.

intenso (feminine intensa, masculine plural intensos, feminine plural intensas)

1. intense, strong

• intensamente

• intensidade

• “intenso”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Latin intēnsus. Doublet of inteso.

• IPA^(key): /inˈtɛn.so/
• Rhymes: -ɛnso
• Hyphenation: in‧tèn‧so

intenso (feminine intensa, masculine plural intensi, feminine plural intense, superlative intensissimo)

1. intense, strong

   Synonyms: forte, profondo

2. intensive, busy, concentrated

   Synonyms: continuo, indaffarato

• intensivo

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

• innesto, innestò, intonse

intēnsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of intēnsus

Learned borrowing from Latin intēnsus (“stretched tight”), past participle of intendere (“to stretch out”), from in (“in, upon, to”) + tendere (“to stretch”).

• Rhymes: -ẽsu
• Hyphenation: in‧ten‧so

intenso (feminine intensa, masculine plural intensos, feminine plural intensas)

1. intense, strong
2. intensive, concentrated

Borrowed from Latin intēnsus. Cf. entesar, inherited from a derivative of the same word.

• IPA^(key): /inˈtenso/ [ĩn̪ˈt̪ẽn.so]
• Rhymes: -enso
• Syllabification: in‧ten‧so

intenso (feminine intensa, masculine plural intensos, feminine plural intensas, superlative intensísimo)

1. intense, strong
2. intensive

• “intenso”, 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