Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɛ.zu]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#TESO
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtɛ.zo]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#TESO
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈte.zo]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#TESO

Verb

tesoCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#TESOCategory:Catalan verb forms#TESOCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#TESOCategory:Pages with entries#TESOCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TESO

1. first-person singular present indicative of tesar

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Latin#TESOCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#TESO tensus. Compare the borrowed doublet tensoCategory:Galician doublets#TESO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteso̝/Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#TESO

Noun

teso m (plural tesos)Category:Galician lemmas#TESOCategory:Galician nouns#TESOCategory:Galician countable nouns#TESOCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#TESOCategory:Galician masculine nouns#TESOCategory:Pages with entries#TESOCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TESO

1. hill; mountain; mountain top

   Synonyms: curuto, cotarelo

Adjective

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural tesas)Category:Galician lemmas#TESOCategory:Galician adjectives#TESOCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#TESOCategory:Pages with entries#TESOCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TESO

1. taut, tight, tense, stretched
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 342:

     Et acharom a seu señor Pyrrus moy malandante ẽna area, moy jnchado et tã teso que adur lles podo falar

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Category:Galician terms with quotations#TESOCategory:Requests for translations of Galician quotations#TESO

   Synonyms: irto, rexo, ríxido

2. stiff (formal in behavior; unrelaxed)
3. erect

   Carallo teso non cre en Deus (proverb)

   In heat, men are prone to sin

   (literally, “An erect penis don't believe in God”)

   Category:Galician terms with usage examples#TESO

References

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.zo/, (traditional) /ˈte.so/^[1]Category:Italian 2-syllable words#TESOCategory:Italian 2-syllable words#TESOCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#TESO
• Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -esoCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ezo#TESOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ezo/2 syllables#TESOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/eso#TESOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/eso/2 syllables#TESO
• Hyphenation: té‧so

Etymology 1

Inherited from LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Latin#TESOCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#TESO tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tensoCategory:Italian doublets#TESO. Cognate with Sicilian tisu.

Etymology 2

References

Anagrams

• esto, oste, stoe

Noun

teso ?Category:Old English lemmas#TESOCategory:Old English nouns#TESOCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#TESOCategory:Requests for gender in Old English entries#TESOCategory:Pages with entries#TESOCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TESO

1. alternative form of tesu

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Old Leonese terms inherited from Latin#TESOCategory:Old Leonese terms derived from Latin#TESO tēnsus. Found in a document in Spanish with heavy Leonese influence dating to the 15th century.^[1]

Noun

teso mCategory:Old Leonese lemmas#TESOCategory:Old Leonese nouns#TESOCategory:Old Leonese entries with incorrect language header#TESOCategory:Old Leonese masculine nouns#TESOCategory:Pages with entries#TESOCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TESO

1. small hill
   • 1480, Tractatus de proprietatibus rerum (Leonese-influenced Spanish):

     Los mayores maestros todo el mundo midieron y las partes [...] y los lugares y los campos y los terretorios y los tesos y las redondezas

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     Category:Old Leonese terms with quotations#TESOCategory:Requests for translations of Old Leonese quotations#TESO

     Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned

References

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Latin#TESOCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#TESO tēnsus (“stretched”). Doublet of tensoCategory:Portuguese doublets#TESO.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ezuCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ezu#TESO
• Hyphenation: te‧so

Adjective

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural tesas)Category:Portuguese lemmas#TESOCategory:Portuguese adjectives#TESOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#TESOCategory:Pages with entries#TESOCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TESO

1. taut; stretched (pulled tight, as in a rope)

   Synonyms: retesado, esticado, tenso

2. stiff; firm; tense
3. still; unmoving

   Synonym: hirto

   1. (colloquialCategory:Portuguese colloquialisms#TESO) erect (having an erect penis)
4. (figurative)
   1. fearless; brave; valiant

      Synonym: intrépido

   2. overheated; violent (said of a discussion or argument)
   3. energetic

      Synonym: energético

   4. (of a person) decisive; inflexible; stubborn

      Synonym: pulso firme

   5. impetuous

      Synonym: impetuoso

5. (informalCategory:Portuguese informal terms#TESO) penniless; broke

   Synonyms: liso, (Brazil) duro

6. steep; steep-sided

   Synonym: íngreme

Noun

teso m (plural tesos)Category:Portuguese lemmas#TESOCategory:Portuguese nouns#TESOCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#TESOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#TESOCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#TESOCategory:Pages with entries#TESOCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TESO

1. a steep mountain or hill
2. summit (of a mountain or hill)
3. (Northern Brazil) elevated terrain (on flooded lands, above sea level)
4. (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#TESO, Rio Grande do SulCategory:Gaúcho Portuguese#TESO) the top of a steep riverbank; a riverside bluff
5. (informalCategory:Portuguese informal terms#TESO) a moneyless or broke person

Verb

tesoCategory:Portuguese lemmas#TESOCategory:Portuguese verbs#TESOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#TESOCategory:Pages with entries#TESOCategory:Pages with 7 entries#TESO

1. first-person singular present indicative of tesar

Further reading

• “teso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “teso”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “teso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteso/ [ˈt̪e.so]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#TESOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#TESO
• Rhymes: -esoCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eso#TESOCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/eso/2 syllables#TESO
• Syllabification: te‧so

Etymology 1

From LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#TESO tēnsusCategory:Spanish undefined derivations#TESO.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “teso”, 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