Galician

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian sdrucciolo.

Adjective

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esdrúxulo (feminine esdrúxula, masculine plural esdrúxulos, feminine plural esdrúxulas)

  1. proparoxytone (whose stress in on the antepenultimate syllable)
    Synonym: proparoxítono

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian sdrucciolo.[1][2] Compare Spanish esdrújulo.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: es‧drú‧xu‧lo

Adjective

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esdrúxulo (feminine esdrúxula, masculine plural esdrúxulos, feminine plural esdrúxulas)

  1. (phonetics) proparoxytone (whose stress in on the antepenultimate syllable)
    Synonym: proparoxítono
  2. weird; strange; bizarre
    Synonyms: esquisito, estranho, bizarro

Noun

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esdrúxulo m (plural esdrúxulos)

  1. proparoxytone (a word which has the stress in on the antepenultimate syllable)
    Synonyms: proparoxítona, proparoxítono
    Coordinate terms: oxítono, paroxítono

References

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  1. ^ esdrúxulo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ esdrúxulo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024