humoros

Humoros is not a standard standalone entry in major dictionaries. In Spanish and Portuguese, the usual adjective meaning “humorous” is formed as humoroso (singular) and its inflected plural forms, humorosos in Spanish or humorosos in Portuguese. The sequence “humoros” by itself is typically a misspelling or a truncation of the correct plural form and does not have a fixed, independent definition in formal usage.

Origin and formation: The adjective humoroso is built from the noun humor, via the Romance-language suffix -oso, which yields meanings like “full of” or “characterized by.” The root humor is related to mood, wit, or the sense of humor in cultural terms. In Latin, umor referred to fluids or bodily humors, a sense that influenced later figurative uses in the Romance languages.

Usage: When describing people or things as funny, correct forms are gender- and number-specific. Masculine singular: humoroso; feminine singular: humorosa; masculine plural: humorosos; feminine plural: humorosas. In most contexts, one should avoid using the form “humoros” alone and instead select the appropriate full form to match gender and number.

See also: Humor; Humorous; Etymology of humor; Romance-language adjectives.