meticuloso
Galician
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin meticulōsus.
Adjective
meticuloso (feminine meticulosa, masculine plural meticulosos, feminine plural meticulosas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “meticuloso”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
Latin
Adjective
meticulōsō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of meticulōsus
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin meticulōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /me.t͡ʃi.kuˈlo.zu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /me.t͡ʃi.kuˈlo.zo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɨ.ti.kuˈlo.zu/
- Hyphenation: me‧ti‧cu‧lo‧so
Adjective
meticuloso (feminine meticulosa, masculine plural meticulosos, feminine plural meticulosas, comparable, comparative mais meticuloso, superlative o mais meticuloso or meticulosíssimo, metaphonic)
- meticulous, rigorous, scrupulous
- Synonyms: consciencioso, escrupuloso
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin meticulōsus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /metikuˈloso/ [me.t̪i.kuˈlo.so]
- Rhymes: -oso
- Syllabification: me‧ti‧cu‧lo‧so
Adjective
meticuloso (feminine meticulosa, masculine plural meticulosos, feminine plural meticulosas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “meticuloso”, 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