viúvo

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin viduus, having developed an epenthetic <v> after the loss of <d>.

• IPA^(key): [biˈuβʊ]

viúvo m (plural viúvos, feminine viúva, feminine plural viúvas)

1. widower

• enviuvar

viúvo (feminine viúva, masculine plural viúvos, feminine plural viúvas)

1. widowed

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “viuva”, 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), “viuu”, 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), “viúvo”, 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), “viúvo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “viúvo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Rhymes: -uvu
• Hyphenation: vi‧ú‧vo

From Latin viduus, through a Vulgar Latin *viduvus.

viúvo (feminine viúva, masculine plural viúvos, feminine plural viúvas)

1. widowed (said of a person who is in a state of widowhood)
2. (figuratively) private
3. (figuratively) abandoned; helpless
4. (figuratively, humorous) said of a person who remains an admirer or defender of something or someone who has been ostracized, who has fallen into oblivion (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

viúvo m (plural viúvos, feminine viúva, feminine plural viúvas)

1. widower (person whose spouse died and who did not remarry)

viúvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of viuvar