Noun: elo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | elo |
| Plural m | elos |
Sample Sentences
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Amar é um elo
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entre o azul
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e o amarelo (To love is a link
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between the blue /
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and the yellow) [(Can we date this quote?), Paulo Leminski, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
Nouns inflected like elo
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese *ãelo, from Latin ānellus, diminutive of anus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂no- (“ring”). See also the doublet anel, borrowed from Occitan. See: Latin Nouns '
ānellus'.
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