Noun: fome
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | fome |
| Plural f | fomes |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Tenho fome porque não como há três dias. (I’m hungry because I haven’t eaten in three days.)
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Fome de poder. (Hunger for power.)
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Ocorreram várias fomes na Etiópia. (Many famines took place in Ethiopia.)
Nouns inflected like fome
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese fame, from Latin famēs (“hunger”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin alternative accusative form Latin *fam(i)ne(m), or more likely a variant nominative form *famen), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, Spanish hambre (Old Spanish fambre), Catalan fam, French faim, Italian fame and Romanian foame (which likewise underwent an unusual phonetic development, possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin fomes (“tinder”)). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
fame', Latin Nouns '
famēs', Galician Nouns '
fame', Spanish Nouns '
hambre', Old Spanish Nouns '
fambre', Catalan Nouns '
fam', French Nouns '
faim', Italian Nouns '
fame', Romanian Nouns '
foame'.
Verbs referencing "fome"
Galician Nouns
fame, Italian Nouns
fame, Spanish Nouns
fame, Spanish Nouns
hambre, French Nouns
faim, Romanian Nouns
foame.
Translations
starve, to be very hungry