precioso

precioso

1. neuter of preciosu

From Old Galician-Portuguese precioso (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Latin pretiōsus.

• Rhymes: -oso
• Hyphenation: pre‧cio‧so

precioso (feminine preciosa, masculine plural preciosos, feminine plural preciosas)

1. precious (of high value or worth)
2. beautiful

   Synonyms: belo, fermoso

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “precioso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “precios”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “precioso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “precioso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “precioso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese precioso, borrowed from Latin pretiōsus.

• Hyphenation: pre‧ci‧o‧so

precioso (feminine preciosa, masculine plural preciosos, feminine plural preciosas, metaphonic)

1. precious (of high value or worth)

• preciosamente

precioso m (plural preciosos, feminine preciosa, feminine plural preciosas, metaphonic)

1. precious (someone (or something) who is loved)

• preço

• “precioso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin pretiōsus. By surface analysis, precio +‎ -oso.

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈθjoso/ [pɾeˈθjo.so] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈsjoso/ [pɾeˈsjo.so] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: pre‧cio‧so

precioso (feminine preciosa, masculine plural preciosos, feminine plural preciosas, superlative preciosísimo)

1. precious
2. gorgeous

   Synonym: hermoso

3. cute

   Synonyms: lindo, bonito

• “precioso”, 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