Noun: cardo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cardo |
| Plural m | cardos |
Sample Sentences
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mays a terra mays lle criaua cardos et espyñas et outras eruas et cousas danosas que o estoruauam que [nõ] o que el semẽtaua (but the earth did not produce but thistles and thorns and other plants and weeds that would rather hinder him than that that he sowed) [c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 7:]
Nouns inflected like cardo
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin carduus. See: Latin Nouns '
carduus'.
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