frouxo

Galician

Etymology

A semi-learned borrowing from Latin fluxus. Cognate with Portuguese frouxo and Spanish flojo.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾowʃo̝/

Adjective

frouxo m (feminine singular frouxa, masculine plural frouxos, feminine plural frouxas)

  1. loose, lax
  2. (figuratively) coward, pusilanimous

Derived terms
  • frouxidade

References
  • “frouxo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “frouxo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin fluxus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

frouxo m (feminine singular frouxa, masculine plural frouxos, feminine plural frouxas, comparable)

  1. loose, lax
  2. (figuratively) coward, pusilanimous

Inflection
Inflection of frouxo
singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
positive frouxo frouxa frouxos frouxas
comparative mais frouxo mais frouxa mais frouxos mais frouxas
superlative o mais frouxo
frouxíssimo		 a mais frouxa
frouxíssima		 os mais frouxos
frouxíssimos		 as mais frouxas
frouxíssimas
augmentative — — — —
diminutive — — — —
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