mysterioso

English

Adjective

mysterioso (not comparable)

  1. mysterious
    • 2008 December 25, Richard Corliss, “The Pinter of Our Discontent”, in Time‎[1], archived from the original on 2 January 2009:
      Under all the mysterioso legerdemain, he was the Shakespeare of rhetorical bullying.
  2. (music) Alternative spelling of misterioso.

Portuguese

Adjective

mysterioso (feminine mysteriosa, masculine plural mysteriosos, feminine plural mysteriosas, metaphonic)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of misterioso.
    • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A morte de Bertha [Bertha’s death]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎[2], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 224:
      O jardim era, pois, para a nossa Bertha um mundo riquissimo, um mundo mysterioso, onde a vida palpitava, no insecto, na planta, no musgo, na ave […]
      The garden was, thus, for our Bertha a most rich world, a mysterious world, where live blossomed, in the bugs, in the plants, in the moss, in the birds […]
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