pedra – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of pedra

Noun: pedra
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fpedra
Plural fpedras

Sample Sentences

  • Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſ[ant]a mari[a] por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe. (How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 294 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/524small.gif] facsimile])]

Etymology

Inherited from Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra). See: Latin Nouns 'petra', Latin Nouns 'petra', Ancient Greek Nouns 'πέτρα'.

Verbs referencing "pedra"

Galician Nouns pedra, Portuguese Nouns pedra.

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