eroso

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eˈro.zo/, (traditional) /eˈro.so/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ozo, (traditional) -oso
  • Hyphenation: e‧ró‧so

Etymology 1

Past participle of erodere.

Participle

eroso (feminine erosa, masculine plural erosi, feminine plural erose)

  1. past participle of erodere

Adjective

eroso (feminine erosa, masculine plural erosi, feminine plural erose)

  1. eroded

Etymology 2

From Latin aerōsus (“full of copper”), derived from aes (“copper; bronze; brass”).

Adjective

eroso (feminine erosa, masculine plural erosi, feminine plural erose)

  1. (literary) containing copper (of coins)
    • 1804, Cesare Beccaria, “Parte quarta, Capitolo II. “Della moneta” [Fourth part, Chapter 2: “Of the coin”]”, in Elementi di economia pubblica [Elements of Public Economics]‎, collected in Opere di Cesare Beccaria – volume secondo, Milan: Società tipografica dei classici italiani, published 1822, page 271:
      monete […] miste di molto rame e di pochissimo argento, e tali monete furono chiamate monete erose nel linguaggio economico
      Coins with much copper and very little silver, and such coins were dubbed “coppery coins” in the argot of economics

References
  1. eroso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

ērōsō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ērōsus

Spanish

Adjective

eroso (feminine erosa, masculine plural erosos, feminine plural erosas)

  1. erose
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