sósinho

Portuguese

Adjective

sósinho (feminine sósinha, masculine plural sósinhos, feminine plural sósinhas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of sozinho.
    • 1846, Gonçalves Dias, “Canção do exilio [The song of exile]”, in Primeiros cantos: peosias, 1st edition, Rio de Janeiro: Typographia Universal de Laemmert, page 10:
      Em scismar — sósinho — á noite — / Mais prazer encontro eu lá; / Minha terra tem palmeiras, / Onde canta o Sabiá.
      When ruminating — alone — at night — / I find more pleasure there; / My land has palm trees, / where the Thrush sings.
    • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “Uma história verdadeira [A true story]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 23:
      O marquez tinha ido sósinho para França. Fôra, ao que se dizia, buscar a filha ao Sacré-Cœur.
      The marquess had gone to France alone. He’d gone, supposedly, to fetch his daughter from the Sacré-Cœur.

Usage notes

This spelling coexisted with sózinho as well as the rarer sosinho, sozinho.

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