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]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• 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

Further reading

• “querido”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

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.)

   Synonym: caro

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], 10 December 2024