Noun: postelein
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like postelein
groepsimmuniteit,
wintergroen,
nixtamalisatie,
homocultuur,
onbesprokenheid,
sesaté,
sepsis,
sterfelijkheid,
seleen,
stoomkracht,
beeldhouwkunst,
clitoridectomie,
kontlikkerij,
concurrentie,
sardis,
satijn,
militaria,
santen,
staatsterreur,
classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Dutch porceleine, from Middle French porcelaine, from Old French pourcelaine, from Italian porcellana, probably a corruption of Latin porcillāca, an alternative form of Latin portulāca. Cognate of English purslane. See: Italian Nouns '
porcellana', Latin Nouns '
porcillāca', Latin Nouns '
portulāca', English Nouns '
purslane'.
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