rouco

From Old Galician-Portuguese rouco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin raucus. Compare Portuguese rouco.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrowkʊ]

rouco (feminine rouca, masculine plural roucos, feminine plural roucas)

1. hoarse, raucous, husky
2. gravelly (of a voice: unpleasantly harsh or rasping)

   Synonym: cavernoso

• enrouquecer
• Rouco
• roucón

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “rouco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rouc”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rouco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “rouco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rouco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese rouco, from Latin raucus. Compare Galician rouco.

• Rhymes: -owku, -oku
• Hyphenation: rou‧co

rouco (feminine rouca, masculine plural roucos, feminine plural roucas)

1. hoarse, husky
2. raucous

• enrouquecer