ouro – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of ouro

Noun: ouro
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mouro
uncountable

Sample Sentences

  • Como ſanta maria demoſtrou a ũu Rey que trobaua por ela gran teſouro douro ⁊ de prata. (How Holy Mary revealed a great treasure of gold and silver to a king who wrote songs for Her.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 348 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/621small.gif] facsimile]):]
  • A primeyra era ouro / coor rrica ⁊ fremoſa / a ſemellante da uirgen / nobre ⁊ mui preçioſa. (The first one was gold, a rich and beautiful colour, similar to the noble and very gorgeous Virgin.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 384 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/687.gif] facsimile]):]

Nouns inflected like ouro

barlavento, Jayme, caminno, ꝱ, arroz, tafur, primo, papel, vidro, mel, almorço, açafram, dormir, estado, ezevro, almafi, açeyro, martes, cozcuz, chumbo, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin aurum (“gold”), from Old Latin ausum (“gold”), from Proto-Italic *auzom (“gold”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”). See: Latin Nouns 'aurum', Latin Nouns 'aurum'.

Verbs referencing "ouro"

Galician Nouns ouro, Portuguese Nouns ouro.

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