Noun: lombo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | lombo |
| Plural m | lombos |
Sample Sentences
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Boteille catorce dentes fóra coa cachiporra [...] O lombo lle vai triscando (I put out of him fourteen teeth with the club … his back is cracking as he walks away) [1671, Gabriel Feixoo de Arauxo, Entremés famoso sobre da pesca do río Miño, page 15:]
Nouns inflected like lombo
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
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lombo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin lumbus (“loin”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰw- (“kidney, waist”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
lombo', Old Portuguese Nouns '
lombo', Latin Nouns '
lumbus'.
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