hondo

hondo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほんど

From Old Spanish fondo, from Latin fundus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn, with the Latin noun taking on an adjectival sense in Spanish. An alternative theory sees the Old Spanish fondo as a shortening of an earlier, pre-literary *perfondo, from the Latin adjective profundus instead, which matches with the sense of the word better[1]; however this is uncertain. The word profundo is a neologism later borrowed from Latin. Cf. also the Spanish noun fondo (“bottom”), which may have preserved the old initial 'f' to distinguish it from the adjective hondo, its doublet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈondo/, [ˈõn̪d̪o]

hondo (feminine singular honda, masculine plural hondos, feminine plural hondas) (superlative hondísimo)

1. deep
2. profound

   Synonym: profundo

• ahondar
• hondura

• fondo

hondo

1. deeply

• “hondo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.