Adjective: dulce
Hyphenation: dul‧ce
| Singular m. | dulce |
| Singular f. | dulce |
Sample Sentences
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Me salva la dulce azúcar, es la habitación que me confina [2004, Akira Yamaoka, translated by from English, Tender Sugar:]
Adjectives inflected like dulce
egocentrista,
cervantista,
ionizante,
antenupcial,
posgradual,
milimolar,
renovable,
lunisolar,
innumerable,
disfuncional,
deflacionista,
antiindependentista,
minifundista,
serial,
servil,
septal,
estravagante,
sexual,
secuaz,
seglar, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin dulcem (“sweet”). Also found in Old Spanish with the forms duz, duce (compare Portuguese doce). Cognate with English dulcet. See: Portuguese Adjectives '
doce'.
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