hondo

Romanization

hondo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほんど

Etymology

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.

Adjective

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

1. deep
2. profound

Adverb

hondo

1. deeply

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