lesivo
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from French lessive, from Latin lixīva, from lixīvus (“made into lye”), by ellipsis of the phrase aqua lixīva. Compare Italian lisciva, Spanish lejía, Romanian leșie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leˈsivo/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ivo
- Hyphenation: le‧si‧vo
Noun
lesivo (uncountable, accusative lesivon)
Derived terms
- lesivpulvoro (“detergent (powder)”)
See also
- lavmaŝino (“washing machine”)
Italian
Etymology
From leso (“damaged”, “injured”) + -ivo (“-ive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leˈzi.vo/
- Rhymes: -ivo
- Hyphenation: le‧sì‧vo
Adjective
lesivo (feminine lesiva, masculine plural lesivi, feminine plural lesive) [with di]
- detrimental or damaging (to); injurious
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- lesivo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- lesivo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- lesivo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- lesivo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- lesivo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- lesivo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /leˈzi.vu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /leˈzi.vo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /lɨˈzi.vu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /lɨˈzi.bu/ [lɨˈzi.βu]
- Hyphenation: le‧si‧vo
Adjective
lesivo (feminine lesiva, masculine plural lesivos, feminine plural lesivas)
- harmful or damaging (to); injurious; detrimental
- Synonyms: nocivo, prejudicial, ruim
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /leˈsibo/ [leˈsi.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -ibo
- Syllabification: le‧si‧vo
Adjective
lesivo (feminine lesiva, masculine plural lesivos, feminine plural lesivas)
- harmful or damaging (to)
- Synonym: perjudicial
- injurious
- Synonym: injurioso
- detrimental
- Synonym: detrimental
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lesivo”, 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