voluptuoso

Forms

voluptuoso (feminine voluptuosa, masculine plural voluptuosos, feminine plural voluptuosas, metaphonic)^[1] A variant spelling is volutuoso.^[2][3][1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin voluptuōsus (“agreeable, delightful”).^[2][4][5][1]

The same Latin adjective gave Spanish voluptuoso, recorded about 1440, French voluptueux, Italian voluttuoso and Romanian voluptuos.^[6][1]

The Latin adjective is formed from voluptās (“pleasure”), with an ending taken from adjectives such as virtuōsus.^[4][1] That noun is a derivative of volup (“with pleasure”), which de Vaan traces to Proto-Indo-European *wolp-i (“hope, pleasure”), comparing Ancient Greek ἔλπομαι (élpomai, “to expect, hope”).^[7]

Earliest recorded meaning

Houaiss's first date is that of Bluteau's dictionary, which defines voluptuoso, ou voluptario as given to the delights of the senses and notes that the Latin voluptuosus meant “giving pleasure”.^[2][8]

Semantic evolution

Morais in 1813 gave both the person given to delights and the thing that delights.^[9] Vieira added things that express pleasure, such as voluptuous scenes, and the noun um voluptuoso.^[10] In modern use the word refers above all to sensual and sexual pleasure, though Houaiss also applies it to the pleasures of the other senses, such as taste.^[2][11]

Timeline

• 1721 – first recorded in Bluteau's dictionary.^[2][8]
• 1734 – Feijó's spelling dictionary lists Voluptuoso.^[12]
• 1789 – first record of voluptuosidade.^[13]
• 1813 – Cunha's first date;^[9] Morais defines it as given to delights.^[4][9]
• 1871–1874 – Vieira records the noun um voluptuoso.^[10]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Who seeks or gives himself up to the pleasures of the senses, above all sexual ones; sensual, lascivious.^[2][11][14]
2. Full of sensual delight or great pleasure; delightful (deleitoso).^[2][15][1]
3. That arouses sensual pleasure, sexual or of the other senses: um perfume voluptuoso.^[2][11]

Noun

1. A person devoted to pleasure, a voluptuary.^[15][11]

Related words

• volúpia
• voluptuosidade
• Latin voluptās
• Spanish voluptuoso

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. voluptuoso
3. ^ Michaelis: Moderno Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, São Paulo: Melhoramentos (online as Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa, https://michaelis.uol.com.br), p. s.v. voluptuoso
4. ^ a b c Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. s.v. voluptuoso
5. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. voluptuoso
6. ^ Corominas, Joan (1973), Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. voluptuoso
7. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill, p. s.v. volup
8. ^ a b Bluteau, Raphael (1712–1728), Vocabulario portuguez e latino, 8 vols. + 2 supplement vols., Coimbra / Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. voluptuoso
9. ^ a b c Silva, António de Morais (1813), Diccionario da lingua portugueza, 2nd ed., 2 vols., Lisboa: Typographia Lacerdina, p. 2, 865
10. ^ a b Vieira, Frei Domingos (1871–1874), Grande Diccionario Portuguez ou Thesouro da lingua portugueza, 5 vols., Porto: Ernesto Chardron e Bartholomeu H. de Moraes, p. 5, 992
11. ^ a b c d Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. voluptuoso
12. ^ Feijó, João de Morais Madureira (1734), Orthographia, ou Arte de escrever, e pronunciar com acerto a lingua portugueza, Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. voluptuoso
13. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. voluptuosidade
14. ^ Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, Lisboa: Priberam Informática, https://dicionario.priberam.org, p. s.v. voluptuoso
15. ^ a b Aulete, Francisco Júlio Caldas, Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa (1st ed. 1881), online as Aulete Digital, Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, https://aulete.com.br, p. s.v. voluptuoso