guapo

• (African-American Vernacular, MTE) IPA^(key): /ˈɡwɑpoʊ̯/

guapo (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of gwop
   • 2020 October 10, “Toot That Sh!t Up”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 0:47:

     […] It’s for the guapo,
     can't waste time with the diamonds, I’m tryna git swallow

guapo

1. neuter of guapu

Borrowed from Spanish guapo, from Latin vappa.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɡwa.pu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡwa.po]

guapo (feminine guapa, masculine plural guapos, feminine plural guapes)

1. good-looking or handsome (unisex)
2. smart or elegant

guapo

1. handsome

Attested since 1755. Probably from Spanish guapo.

• Rhymes: -apo

guapo (feminine guapa, masculine plural guapos, feminine plural guapas)

1. good

   Synonym: bo

   • 1812, Ramón González Semnra, Carta recomendada:

     nosoutros xa lle temos un jues moi guapo. Para buscalo non fixemos mais que botar ó ollo ó veciño da jurisdizon que nos pareceu mais honrado, mais home de ben, mais cristiano, é que millor coidaba da sua familia é da sua casa, sin ser empexoso, nin empeitizo, nin sobervio, nin cobizoso, nin zizañeiro

     we already have a very good judge. For finding him we did nothing but search for the neighbor that seemed to us as the most honest, the most upstanding, the most Christian, and that tooks the most care of his family and house; who is neither envious, nor haughty, nor arrogant, nor greedy, nor an instigator.

2. nice, beautiful

   Synonym: bonito

   • 1755, Magdalena Garcia de Ogando, Carta:

     a sua sobriña Faruciña me dice que de sua parte le diga a bustede que lle quer regale con un rosario de Jerusalen mui guapo

     you niece Farruquiña tell me that, on her behalf, I tell you that she want to gift you a very nice rosary of Jerusalem

3. good-looking

   Synonyms: fermoso, garrido

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “guapo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “guapo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “guapo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwa.pu/

guapo m (feminine guapa, masculine plural guapos, feminine plural guapas, superlative guapíssemo)

1. gorgeous, beautiful

“guapo” in Amadeu Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona Ferreira, Dicionário Mirandês-Português, 1st edition, 2004.

Borrowed from Spanish guapo.

• Hyphenation: gua‧po

guapo (feminine guapa, masculine plural guapos, feminine plural guapas)

1. brave; courageous

   Synonyms: bravo, corajoso

2. pretty; beautiful

   Synonyms: belo, bonito

Ultimately from Latin vappa (“flat wine; figuratively, worthless person”), probably not directly but through the intermediate of dialectal Old French wape, gape, gouape, which has also received influence from Proto-Germanic *hwapjaną (“to breathe, air out, let go to waste, become sour”). At one point meant "rascal" or "ruffian" and evolved in meaning over time.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡwapo/ [ˈɡwa.po]

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• Rhymes: -apo
• Syllabification: gua‧po

guapo m (plural guapos)

1. arrowroot

   Synonyms: maranta, sagú, planta obediente

guapo (feminine guapa, masculine plural guapos, feminine plural guapas, superlative guapísimo)

1. good-looking; handsome, pretty (describes a man or a woman)

   Synonyms: bonito, hermoso, lindo

   Antonym: feo

   Los chicos son guapos.

   The boys are good-looking.

2. smart or elegant
3. bold, fearless
4. (Dominican Republic) angry, upset

• → Cebuano: gwapo
• → Portuguese: guapo
• → Galician: guapo
• → Tagalog: guwapo
• → French: gouape
• → Neapolitan: guappo
  • → English: wop
• →? English: gwop, guap, gwap, gwuap
  • → German: Gwop
  • → Russian: гвап (gvap), гуа́п (guáp)

• “guapo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28