gozo

See also: Gozo and gozó

Basque

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ɡos̻o/, [ɡo̞.s̻o̞]

Adjective

gozo (comparative gozoago, superlative gozoen, excessive gozoegi)

1. sweet

Galician

Verb

gozo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gozar

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Spanish gozo (compare modern Spanish gozo), from Latin gaudium. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese goyo, goivo. Doublet of gáudio and goivo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.zu/

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: go‧zo

Noun

gozo m (plural gozos)

1. joy, enjoyment
2. pleasure, satisfaction
3. usefulness
4. joke
5. mockery
6. (Brazil, colloquial) orgasm
7. (Brazil, colloquial) semen, sperm

Derived terms

• gozar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.zu/

• Rhymes: -ɔzu
• Hyphenation: go‧zo

Verb

gozo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gozar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈɡoθo/ [ˈɡo.θo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈɡoso/ [ˈɡo.so]
• Rhymes: -oθo
• Rhymes: -oso
• Syllabification: go‧zo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin gaudium.

Noun

gozo m (plural gozos)

1. joy
2. pleasure, enjoyment

Derived terms

• gozar
• gozos
• mi gozo en un pozo
• regocijo

 

Etymology 2

Verb

gozo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gozar

Further reading

• “gozo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014