formoso

== Asturian == === Adjective === formoso neuter of formosu == Italian == === Etymology === From Latin fōrmōsus (“beautiful, well-formed”) (compare Portuguese formoso, Spanish hermoso, Galician fermoso, Romanian frumos). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /forˈmo.zo/, (traditional) /forˈmo.so/ Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso Hyphenation: for‧mó‧so (Romanesco) IPA(key): /foɾmoso/ === Adjective === formoso (feminine formosa, masculine plural formosi, feminine plural formose) shapely, curvaceous, (rare, uncommon, dialectal, dated, archaic, obsolete) beautiful ==== Related terms ==== forma formosità == Latin == === Adjective === fōrmōsō dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fōrmōsus == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === fermoso (obsolete) fremoso (Trás-os-Montes) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin fōrmōsus, as a relatinization of inherited fermoso, from Old Galician-Portuguese fremoso, fermoso. Cognate with Galician fermoso, Spanish hermoso. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: for‧mo‧so === Adjective === formoso (feminine formosa, masculine plural formosos, feminine plural formosas, comparable, comparative mais formoso, superlative o mais formoso or formosíssimo, diminutive formosinho, augmentative formosão, metaphonic) beautiful Synonyms: belo, lindo ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “formoso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “formoso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026