Noun: maçãa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | maçãa |
| Plural f | maçãas |
Sample Sentences
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Por ela nos perdõou / deus o pecado Dadam. / da maçãa que goſtou. per / que ſoffreu muit affan. (By her, God forgave us of Adam’s sin. Of the apple he tasted, because she felt very anguished.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 3 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/057small.html] facsimile])]
Nouns inflected like maçãa
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin māla (“apples”) mattiana (“of Mattium”), though some theorize that mattiana was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.
Verbs referencing "maçãa"
Portuguese Nouns
maçã, Galician Nouns
mazá.
Translations