afanoso

Portuguese

Etymology

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Portuguese afã

Portuguese -ar

Portuguese afanar

Portuguese -oso

Portuguese afanoso

From afanar + -oso.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.faˈno.zu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.faˈno.zu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.faˈno.zo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.fɐˈno.zu/

Adjective

afanoso (feminine afanosa, masculine plural afanosos, feminine plural afanosas, metaphonic)

1. laborious, arduous

Derived terms

• afanosamente

Further reading

• “afanoso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “afanoso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

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Spanish afanar

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos

Proto-Italic *orsos

Latin ursus

Old Spanish osso

Spanish oso

Spanish afanoso

From afanar + oso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /afaˈnoso/ [a.faˈno.so]
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: a‧fa‧no‧so

Adjective

afanoso (feminine afanosa, masculine plural afanosos, feminine plural afanosas)

1. industrious, laborious (hard-working and persistent)

   Synonyms: industrioso, laborioso

Derived terms

• afanosamente

Related terms

• afán

Further reading

• “afanoso”, 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