esforzo

Galician

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese esforço, deverbal from esforçar, from a Vulgar Latin *exfortiāre, from *fortiāre, from fortia (“heroic actions”). Compare Portuguese esforço, Spanish esfuerzo, Catalan esforç, French effort, Italian sforzo. Cognate with English effort.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [esˈfɔɾθʊ], (western) [esˈfɔɾsʊ]

Noun

esforzo m (plural esforzos)

  1. effort
  2. vigour; mettle; spirit; zest
    Synonym: azo

References
  • “esforço” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “esforço” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “esforzo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “esforzo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Verb

esforzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of esforzar
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