hondo

Noun

 * 1) war

Etymology
, from, with the Latin noun taking on an adjectival sense in Spanish.

An alternative theory sees the Old Spanish as a shortening of an earlier, pre-literary, from the Latin adjective  instead, which matches with the sense of the word better; however this is uncertain. The word is a neologism later borrowed from Latin. Cf. also the Spanish noun, which may have preserved the old initial 'f' to distinguish it from the adjective , its doublet.

Adjective

 * 1) deep
 * 2) profound
 * 1) profound

Adverb

 * 1) deeply