sózinho

Portuguese

Adjective

sózinho (feminine sózinha, masculine plural sózinhos, feminine plural sózinhas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of sozinho.
    • 1900, Eça de Queiroz, chapter V, in A illustre Casa de Ramires‎[1], 1st edition, Porto: Livraria Chardron, page 239:
      — Ai! volto, volto... Não posso deixar sózinha a mãe do meu homem, que tem oitenta annos e está entrevada.
      “Oh! I’ll go back, yes... I can’t leave my man’s mother, who’s eighty years old and paralysed, by herself.
    • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “O mundo coberto de pennas [The world covered in feathers]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 174:
      Impossivel dar cabo daquella praga. Estirou os olhos pela campina, achou-se isolado. Sózinho num mundo coberto de pennas, de aves queriam comel-o.
      It was impossible to put an end to that pest. He looked over the plains, found himself isolated. Alone in a world covered in feathers, in birds that sought to eat him.

Usage notes

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

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