Noun: galera
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | galera |
| Plural f | galeras |
Sample Sentences
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A galera como um cavallo que obedece facilmente á pericia de um optimo cavalleiro, proejou a barra em meio das exclamações dos impacientes e saudosos passageiros. (The galley, like a horse that easily obeys the skill of an excellent rider, crossed the bar amidst the exclamations of the impatient and nostalgic passengers.) [1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A Cigana [The Gypsy]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]^(https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Contos_e_phantasias_(Maria_Amália_Vaz_de_Carvalho,_1905)), 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 143:]
Nouns inflected like galera
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 Catalan galera, from Latin galea, from Byzantine Greek γάλεα (gálea), from γαλέη (galéē, “type of shellfish”), from Ancient Greek γαλεός (galeós, “shark”). See: Catalan Nouns '
galera', Latin Nouns '
galea', Ancient Greek Nouns '
γαλεός'.
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