Noun: soto
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | soto |
| Plural m | sotos |
Sample Sentences
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se alguas seeteyras ou lançeyros estan feytas en a parede da dicta casa, que as çarren de pedra et que as non abran nunca nen façan y outras alguas a saluo fique en o sotoo da dicta casa as lumeeyras que foren neçesarias et perteesçentes para dar lume ao dicto sotoo que non seian por maneyra de defensa algua (if some arrowslits or embrasures are built in the walls of that tower house, they must be closed in stone, never to be reopened, and they shouldn't build new ones, with this exception, that in the ground floor there should be enough and sufficient skylights for lightening the aforementioned ground floor, but as long as they can't be used for defense) [1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:]
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todâ â casa, sotôô e sobrado que vos e os ditos vosos yrmâôs auedes (the whole house, ground and upper floor, that you and your brothers have) [1429, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 307]
Nouns inflected like soto
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
From the Medieval Galician form sotõo; probably from Vulgar Latin *subtulum, from Latin subtus. Cognate with Portuguese sótão (“attic”) and Spanish sótano (“cellar”). See: Latin Nouns '
subtus', Portuguese Nouns '
sótão', Spanish Nouns '
sótano'.
Verbs referencing "soto"
Portuguese Nouns
sótão.
Translations