gozo

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• Hyphenation: go‧zo

gozo (comparative gozoago, superlative gozoen, excessive gozoegi)

1. sweet

• “gozo”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “gozo”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

gozo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gozar

• goço

Inherited from Latin gaudium.

gozo m (plural gozos)

1. joy
2. pleasure, enjoyment

• Spanish: gozo
• → Galician: gozo
• → Portuguese: gozo
• → Sardinian: gosu

Borrowed from Old Spanish gozo (compare modern Spanish gozo), from Latin gaudium. Displaced Old Galician-Portuguese goyo, goivo. Doublet of gáudio and goivo.

• gôzo (pre-reform spelling)

• Rhymes: -ozu
• Hyphenation: go‧zo

gozo m (plural gozos)

1. joy, enjoyment
2. pleasure, satisfaction
3. usefulness
4. joke
5. mockery
6. (Brazil, colloquial) orgasm
7. (Brazil, colloquial) semen, sperm

• gozar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔzu
• Hyphenation: go‧zo

gozo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gozar

• “gozo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “gozo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoθo/ [ˈɡo.θo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoso/ [ˈɡo.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oθo (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -oso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: go‧zo

Inherited from Old Spanish gozo, from Latin gaudium.

gozo m (plural gozos)

1. joy
2. pleasure, enjoyment

gozo

1. first-person singular present indicative of gozar

• “gozo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025