FromOld Galician-Portuguese-oso, fromLatin-ōsus.

• IPA^(key):/ˈoso/[ˈo.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes:-oso

-oso (adjective-forming suffix,feminine-osa,masculine plural-osos,feminine plural-osas)

1. -ous,-ful,-y

   ‎cobiza(“greed”) + ‎-oso → ‎cobizoso(“covetous; greedy”)

   ‎verme(“worm, maggot”) + ‎-oso → ‎vermioso(“wormy, maggoty”)

FromLatin-ōsus.

• IPA^(key):/ˈo.zo/,(traditional)/ˈo.so/
• Rhymes:-ozo,(traditional)-oso
• Hyphenation:-ó‧so

-oso

1. -ous,-ful,-y

   Synonym:-uoso

-ōsō

1. dative/ablativemasculine/neutersingular of-ōsus

FromOld Galician-Portuguese-oso, fromLatin-ōsus.

-oso (adjective-forming suffix,feminine-osa,masculine plural-osos,feminine plural-osas,metaphonic)

1. -ous,-y

• All derived adjectives in-oso aremetaphonic, i.e. stressed/o/ changes to/ɔ/ in the feminine and plural.

Inherited fromOld Spanish-oso, fromLatin-ōsus.

-oso (adjective-forming suffix,feminine-osa,masculine plural-osos,feminine plural-osas)

1. -ous,-ful,-y

   ‎carne(“flesh”) + ‎-oso → ‎carnoso(“fleshy”)

   ‎dolor(“pain”) + ‎-oso → ‎doloroso(“painful”)

   ‎gloria(“glory”) + ‎-oso → ‎glorioso(“glorious”)

• “-oso”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10