fabuloso

/fabuˈloso/ · B1 · adj

fabulous

🐉 Latin fabula = fable: fabuloso is anything worthy of a fable

Spanish fábula (fable) comes from the same Latin root. Something fabuloso first meant 'from a fable or legend', and later 'so amazing it seems legendary', just like English fabulous. Stress falls on -LO-: fa-bu-LO-so.

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