gavião – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: gavião
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	gavião
Singular f	gaviã; gavioa
Plural m	gaviões
Plural f	gaviãs; gavioas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like gavião

gavião, beirão,

Etymology

1. From Old Galician-Portuguese gavian, of uncertain origin. Possible etymologies include:
2. * From Latin gāvia (“kind of bird; seagull”), with the suffix -ão, or possibly through a Vulgar Latin *gavianus (compare Italian gabbiano); compare gaivota from the same etymon;
3. * From Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌹𐌻𐌰 (*gabila, “sparrow hawk”), which would be related to Proto-West Germanic *gabulu.
4. Cognate with Galician gabián, Mirandese gabilan and Spanish gavilán. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'gavian', Latin Nouns 'gāvia', Italian Nouns 'gabbiano', Galician Nouns 'gabián', Spanish Nouns 'gavilán'.

Verbs referencing "gavião"

Spanish Nouns gavilán, Galician Nouns gabián.

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