viscoso
Portuguese
adj
Definitions
- Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid; viscous.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin viscōsus, viscum (birdlime, mistletoe).
Origin
Latin
viscum
Gloss
birdlime, mistletoe
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- viscose English
- viscumin English
- *visclum Latin
- viscidus Latin
- viscosus Latin
- viscum Latin
- viscōsus Latin
- viskos German
- viscoso Italian
- visco Spanish, Castilian
- viscoso Spanish, Castilian
- *weyḱs- Proto-Indo-European
- visgo Portuguese
- viscous Old French
- viscós Catalan, Valencian
- viscoso Galician
- visgo Galician
- vâsc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vâscos Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- guy Middle French
- visqueux Middle French
- vãscu Aromanian
- visc Friulian
- viscôs Friulian
- *wīhsila Frankish
- visc Piedmontese