Noun: país
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | país |
| Plural m | países |
Sample Sentences
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Cada país seu uso, cada roca seu fuso. (when in Rome, do as the Romans do)
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Na segunda fase, no século IX, cambea radicalmente a situación verbo das relacións entre Galicia e a corte asturiana, na que o noso país ten xa unha influencia decisiva. (In the second phase, during the 9th century, the situation changes radically in regards to the relations of Galicia and the Asturian Court, in which our country has already a decisive influence) [1978, Emilio González López, Grandeza e decadencia do reino de Galicia, Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 88:]
Nouns inflected like país
solpor,
ordenador,
xograr,
xantar,
xaguar,
chamador,
branquexador,
petador,
batedor,
detonador,
cobertor,
multiplicador,
comparador,
proxector,
gerador,
reiseñor,
humidificador,
chuchamel,
glaciar,
traballador, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French pays, from Old French païs, from Medieval Latin pagensis, from Latin pāgus (“country”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. See: French Nouns '
pays', Latin Nouns '
pāgus'.
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