Adjective: louco
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | louco |
| Singular f. | louca |
| Plural m. | loucos |
| Plural f. | loucas |
Sample Sentences
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Homes sandios et jente louqua, nõ deuedes a chamar Santiago caualeiro mais pescador que leixou o barquo et as redes ẽno mar de Galilea et foyse cõ Nostro Señor, et el fezoo pescador dos homes (foolish men and mad people, you should not call Saint James a knight, but a fisherman who left his boat and the nets in the sea of Galilee and went with Our Lord, and He made him a fisherman of men) [1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 208:]
Adjectives inflected like louco
preguiceiro,
metafórico,
perdulário,
metafísico,
anxélico,
serbio,
sañudo,
severo,
seguro,
sedoso,
sabido,
atmosférico,
estremeiro,
romántico,
metódico,
satisfeito,
sonoro,
sollío,
sobexo,
sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Unknown. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese louco, lauco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from Andalusian Arabic لَوَق (lawaq, “stupidity”), from Arabic لاق (lāq, “to soften”). Compare Portuguese louco, Spanish loco, and Sicilian loccu. See: Portuguese Adjectives '
louco', Spanish Adjectives '
loco'.
Verbs referencing "louco"
Portuguese Adjectives
louco.
Translations