Noun: grilanda
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | grilanda |
| Plural f | grilandas |
Sample Sentences
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Et hũ dia vyña de mõte Liçeo et vyoa hũ deus que avia nome Pam -et dizẽ os autores que aeste chamauã os gentijs deus das cabras -, et este tragia ẽna cabeça hũa grilanda de pyno (And a day happened that, as she was coming from Mount Liceo, a god named Pan saw her -and the authors say that he was called by the gentiles god of the goats- and he was wearing a wreath of pine on his head) [1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 254:]
Nouns inflected like grilanda
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese guerlanda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), guirlanda. Probably from Old Occitan guirlanda (compare French guirlande). Compare Portuguese guirlanda and Spanish guirnalda. See: French Nouns '
guirlande', Portuguese Nouns '
guirlanda', Spanish Nouns '
guirnalda'.
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