deleitoso

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese deleytoso. By surface analysis, deleite (“delight”) +‎ -oso (“-ous”).

• IPA^(key): /delejˈtoso/ [d̪e.lejˈt̪o.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Hyphenation: lei‧to‧so

deleitoso (feminine deleitosa, masculine plural deleitosos, feminine plural deleitosas)

1. delightful

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “deleytoso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “deleytoso”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “deleitoso”, 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), “deleitoso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From deleite +‎ -oso.

• IPA^(key): /deleiˈtoso/ [d̪e.lei̯ˈt̪o.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: de‧lei‧to‧so

deleitoso (feminine deleitosa, masculine plural deleitosos, feminine plural deleitosas)

1. delightful

   Synonym: delicioso

• “deleitoso”, 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