Noun: color
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | color |
| Plural f | colores |
Sample Sentences
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diz que apareçeu ẽno çeo hũa cruz, que era de muytas colores et muy fremosa; et teuerõna os cristãos por muy boo sinal (he says that a cross appeared in the sky, which was of many colors and very beauty; and the Christians considered it a very good sign) [1295, R. Lorenzo, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 745:]
Nouns inflected like color
coliflor,
xugular,
beiramar,
calor,
color,
velar,
dor,
col,
tol,
rebor,
baixamar,
anllar,
circular,
manjar,
mulher,
muller,
coller,
culler,
flor,
chor, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese color, alternative form of coor, perhaps from an older forms collor (compare Asturian collor and color), from Latin color, colōrem. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
color', Old Portuguese Nouns '
color', Asturian Nouns '
collor', Latin Nouns '
color'.
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