fermosura

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fremosura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): from fermoso +‎ -ura. Cognate with Portuguese formosura and Spanish hermosura.

• IPA^(key): /feɾmoˈsuɾa/ [feɾ.moˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Hyphenation: fer‧mo‧su‧ra

fermosura f (plural fermosuras)

1. beauty

   Synonym: beleza

   A fermosura moitas faltas disimula (proverb) ― Beauty conceals many faults

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

• fremosura

From fermoso (“beautiful”) +‎ -ura.

• IPA^(key): /heɾmoˈzuɾa/

fermosura f (usually uncountable)

1. beauty
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 118v:

     Et ſobre eſta fregan el oro. ⁊ la plata. ⁊ el eſtanno. ⁊ el plomo. ⁊ el cobre. ⁊ pareſce ſu color. ⁊ ſu fermoſura. ⁊ ſu bondat.

     And on it they wash gold, and silver, and tin, and lead, and copper, and it makes apparent their color, and beauty, and goodness.

• Ladino: ermozura
• Spanish: hermosura

• IPA^(key): /feɾmoˈsuɾa/ [feɾ.moˈsu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: fer‧mo‧su‧ra

fermosura f (uncountable)

1. obsolete form of hermosura

• “fermosura”, 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