donoso

Attested since circa 1350. Probably from Old Spanish donoso.

• IPA^(key): [doˈnosʊ]

donoso (feminine donosa, masculine plural donosos, feminine plural donosas)

1. elegant; jaunty

   Synonyms: airoso, elegante, garboso

• doar

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “donoso”, 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), “donosa”, 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), “donoso”, 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), “donoso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /doˈnoso/ [d̪oˈno.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: do‧no‧so

donoso (feminine donosa, masculine plural donosos, feminine plural donosas)

1. (literary) amusing
   • 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:

     cuando empezaron a contarle los graciosísimos lances de la lucha, que salpimentados con mil donosas ocurrencias del cura, hacían morir de risa.

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• “donoso”, 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