afectuoso

== Portuguese == === Adjective === afectuoso (feminine afectuosa, masculine plural afectuosos, feminine plural afectuosas, metaphonic) (European Portuguese spelling) pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of afetuoso; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling === Further reading === “afectuoso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin affectuōsus (“affectionate”). By surface analysis, afecto +‎ -oso. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /afeɡˈtwoso/ [a.feɣ̞ˈt̪wo.so] Rhymes: -oso Syllabification: a‧fec‧tuo‧so === Adjective === afectuoso (feminine afectuosa, masculine plural afectuosos, feminine plural afectuosas) affectionate Synonyms: cariño, querendón (Latin America) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “afectuoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025