Noun: alferes
| Singular | alferes |
| Plural | alferes |
Sample Sentences
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Is not this my Alferes? he looks another thing [1624 (first performance), John Fletcher, “Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
Nouns inflected like alferes
cement works,
Old World ROM,
mythopoetics,
zhenniao,
ichimon,
seinen,
sedoka,
semese,
sentai,
senryū,
senbei,
whapuku,
whapuka,
selbri,
Cinghalese,
sayori,
sansho,
sanies,
sanmai,
sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Portuguese alferes, Spanish alférez, from Arabic الفَارِس (al-fāris, “the knight”), influenced in meaning by Latin aquilifer (“standard-bearer”). See: Portuguese Nouns '
alferes', Spanish Nouns '
alférez', Latin Nouns '
aquilifer'.