leão – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: leão
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	leão
Singular f	leoa
Plural m	leões
Plural f	leoas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like leão

lapão, pavão, dragão, leitão, patrão, leão,

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese leon (“lion”), from Latin leōnem (“lion”), from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn). Doublet of leu. Cognate with Galician and Spanish león among others.

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