cobiçoso
Portuguese, noun/ko.biˈso.zu/
cobiçoso is spelled C-O-B-I-Ç-O-S-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written Portuguese, the 154,590th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cobiçoso is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “coveter; greedy person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does cobiçoso mean in English?
adjective
- 1
covetous; greedy
noun
- 1
masculinecoveter; greedy person
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. cheio de cobiça 2. ambicioso 3. desejoso
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 cobiçoso
- cobiçosa feminine
- cobiçosos masculine plural
- cobiçosas feminine plural
- metaphonic feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cobiçoso?
- Brazil /ko.biˈso.zu/
- Portugal /ku.biˈso.zu/
- Portugal [ku.βiˈso.zu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cobiçoso in Portuguese?
cobiçoso 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).