querido

Galician

Participle

querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas)

1. past participle of querer

Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of querer. Displaced expected *quesido.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈɾi.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈɾi.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /keˈɾi.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɨˈɾi.du/ [kɨˈɾi.ðu]

• Homophone: crido (Portugal)
• Hyphenation: que‧ri‧do

Adjective

querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas)

1. dear
2. lovely, cute

Noun

querido m (plural queridos, feminine querida, feminine plural queridas)

1. sweetheart
2. darling

Participle

querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas)

1. past participle of querer

Spanish

Etymology

Past participle of querer. Displaced old quisto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keˈɾido/ [keˈɾi.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ido
• Syllabification: que‧ri‧do

Adjective

querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas, superlative queridísimo)

1. dear (also used in letter introductions, etc.)
2. (colloquial, Colombia) handsome (guy), beautiful (girl)

Derived terms

• cercano y querido (“near and dear”)
• ser querido

Noun

querido m (plural queridos, feminine querida, feminine plural queridas)

1. sweetheart
2. lover
3. the letter Q in the Spanish spelling alphabet

Participle

querido (feminine querida, masculine plural queridos, feminine plural queridas)

1. past participle of querer

Further reading

• “querido”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10