vadoso

Borrowed from Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”).

vadoso (feminine singular vadosa, masculine plural vadosi, feminine plural vadose)

1. vadose

• guado

vadōsō

1. dative masculine singular of vadōsus
2. dative neuter singular of vadōsus
3. ablative masculine singular of vadōsus
4. ablative neuter singular of vadōsus

From Latin vadōsus (“full of shallows”), from vadum (“shallow”) + -ōsus (“-ose”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐ.ˈðo.zu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.ˈdo.zu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /va.ˈdo.zo/

vadoso m (feminine singular vadosa, masculine plural vadosos, feminine plural vadosas, comparable)

1. (of a body of water) full of shallows
   • 1865, Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, Opusculos historicos e litterarios, 30^th chapter, page 121:

     […] ; e posto que o rio nesta calorosa estação assás pobre estivesse de suas aguas, e em certos logares tão vadoso que mais não tinha de palmo e meio, era a sua correnteza de tres milhas.

     […] ; and considering that in this hot season the river was lacking so much of its waters, and in certain places so full of shallows that it wasn’t more than one and a half handspans deep, its current was three miles long.

• vau

• raso