Noun: bússola
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | bússola |
| Plural f | bússolas |
Sample Sentences
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Na Buſſola ſaõ notados os quatro pontos cardeaes do Mundo, a ſaber, o Norte, o Sul, o Naſcente, e o Poente[…] (On the compass are written the world's four compass points, namely: north, south, east and west.) [1728, Manuel de Azevedo Fortes, chapter IX, in O Engenheiro Portuguez [The Portuguese Engineer], volume 1, book 3, Lisbon: Manoel Fernandes da Costa, page 375:]
Nouns inflected like bússola
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian bussola, from Late Latin buxula. First attested in 1712. Doublet of boate and boceta. See: Italian Nouns '
bussola'.
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