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airoso

Portuguese, adjective/ajˈɾo.zu/

airoso is a Portuguese adjective meaning “comely, graceful, genteel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “elegante”.

What does airoso mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    comely, graceful, genteel

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. elegante 2. gentil 3. esbelto 4. garboso

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of airoso

  • airosa feminine
  • airosos masculine plural
  • airosas feminine plural
  • metaphonic feminine plural
  • airôso alternative obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce airoso?

  • Brazil /ajˈɾo.zu/
  • Brazil [aɪ̯ˈɾo.zu]
  • Portugal /ajˈɾo.zu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is airoso in Portuguese?

airoso appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).