espeso

Borrowed from Spanish espeso, from Latin spissus, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos.

• Hyphenation: es‧pe‧so

espeso

1. thick; viscous
2. saturated

From Old Galician-Portuguese espesso (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin spissus, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos. Cognate with Portuguese espesso, Spanish espeso.

• IPA^(key): [esˈpesʊ]

espeso (feminine espesa, masculine plural espesos, feminine plural espesas)

1. thick

   Synonyms: mesto, testo

   • c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:

     Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se torne espeso como jngento

     for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, kneaded and cooked and stirred till it becomes thick as an ointment

2. dense; numerous; crowded

   Synonyms: basto, denso, mesto, testo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “espesso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “espes”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “espeso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “espeso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “espeso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /esˈpeso/ [esˈpe.so]
• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification: es‧pe‧so

Inherited from Old Spanish espesso, from Latin spissus, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos. Cognate with French épais.

espeso (feminine espesa, masculine plural espesos, feminine plural espesas)

1. dense, thick
2. (Guatemala, Cuba, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia) annoying, bothersome, inappropriate, tiresome
3. (Ecuador, Rioplatense, of a situation) complicated, difficult, causing conflictedness

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

espeso

1. first-person singular present indicative of espesar

• “espeso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024