Adjective: recio
Hyphenation: re‧cio
| Singular m. | recio |
| Singular f. | recia |
| Plural m. | recios |
| Plural f. | recias |
Sample Sentences
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Era de complexión recia, seco de carnes, enjuto de rostro, gran madrugador y amigo de la caza. (He had a strong constitution, spare, gaunt features; was a very early riser and a great hunter.) [1605, Miguel de Cervantes, chapter I, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha [ The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha], Primera parte, Madrid: Imprenta de Juan de la Cuesta:]
Adjectives inflected like recio
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish rezio, probably from a Vulgar Latin *recidus, *ricidus, alteration of Latin rigidus. If so, a doublet of rígido. See: Latin Adjectives '
rigidus'.
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