lanoso

Forms

lanoso (feminine lanosa, masculine plural lanosos, feminine plural lanosas)^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin lānōsus (“woolly”).^[2][1][3] Corominas lists it among the derivatives of lana, and Wiktionary notes that it can also be read as the noun with the suffix -oso.^[4][1]

The same Latin word is Romanian lânos, Italian lanoso, French laineux, Old Occitan lanos and Catalan llanós.^[3] The cognate Portuguese lanoso, recorded from the 17th century, is considered learned.^[5][6] The Latin adjective is formed on lāna (“wool”) with the suffix -ōsus.^[7][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The Old Spanish text archive's only early record is the Castilian Libro de proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, printed at Toulouse in 1494.^[8]

Semantic evolution

Terreros glossed it “woolly, hairy”, and the Academy's dictionary of 1843 sent the reader to lanudo.^[9][10] Domínguez in 1846 added “like wool in its physical properties”.^[11] The DLE defines it as having much wool or fine hair, and Moliner also gives the senses “downy” and “wool-like”.^[2][12]

Timeline

• 1494 – the Castilian Libro de proprietatibus rerum printed at Toulouse.^[8]
• 1786–1793 – Terreros glosses it “woolly, hairy”.^[9]
• 1843 – the Academy's dictionary has it as a synonym of lanudo.^[10]
• 1884 – the Academy gives the etymology lanosus.^[13]

Meanings

Adjective

1. woolly: having much wool or fine hair (vello): un perro de pelo lanoso.^[2][1]
2. Like wool in look or texture.^[12][14]
3. (botany) downy, lanuginoso.^[12]

Word family

• lanosidad

Related words

• lana
• lanudo
• lanuginoso
• Latin lānōsus

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. lanoso
3. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 4895
4. ^ Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. lana
5. ^ Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. 1984
6. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. lanoso
7. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
8. ^ a b Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies (2026), Old Spanish Textual Archive (OSTA): semi-paleographic transcriptions of Old Spanish texts, ed. Francisco Gago Jover et al., https://www.hispanicseminary.org, p. s.v. lanoso
9. ^ a b Terreros y Pando, Esteban de (1786–1793), Diccionario castellano con las voces de ciencias y artes y sus correspondientes de las tres lenguas francesa, latina e italiana, 4 vols., Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, p. 4, 85
10. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1843), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 9th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Francisco María Fernández, p. 429
11. ^ Domínguez, Ramón Joaquín (1846–1847), Diccionario nacional o gran diccionario clásico de la lengua española, 2 vols., Madrid: Establecimiento Léxico-Tipográfico de R. J. Domínguez, p. 2, 1065
12. ^ a b c Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. lanoso
13. ^ Real Academia Española (1884), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 12th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de D. Gregorio Hernando (the first Academy edition with etymologies), p. 629
14. ^ Battaner Arias, Paz (dir.) (2017), Diccionario general de la lengua española VOX, Barcelona: Larousse Editorial, p. s.v. lanoso