Adjective: roxo
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | roxo |
| Singular f. | roxa |
| Plural m. | roxos |
| Plural f. | roxas |
Sample Sentences
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está roxo de inveja (he is green with envy)
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o Mar Roxo (the Red Sea)
Adjectives inflected like roxo
desamparado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
autotrófico,
saxónico,
saxônico,
eslávico,
bandeiroso,
inescrupuloso,
desavergonhado,
babilónio,
babilônio,
super-humano,
acidêmico,
sereno,
sestro,
severo,
celibatário,
seboso, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese roxo (“dark red”), from Latin russeus (“dark red”), from russus (“red”).
2. Cognate with Galician roxo (“reddish-brown”), Spanish rojo (“red”), Catalan ros (“blond”), Occitan ros (“russet”), French roux (“russet”), Italian rosso (“red”), Sicilian russu ~ ruxu and Romanian roșu (“red”). See: Galician Adjectives '
roxo', Spanish Adjectives '
rojo', Catalan Adjectives '
ros', French Adjectives '
roux', Italian Adjectives '
rosso', Romanian Adjectives '
roșu'.
Verbs referencing "roxo"
Spanish Adjectives
rojo.
Translations