Noun: lua
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | lua |
| Plural f | luas |
Sample Sentences
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Que bela vista da cidade sob a lua. (What a beautiful view of the city under the moonlight.)
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Mas a lua, furando o nosso zinco / Salpicava de estrelas nosso chão (But the moon, piercing our zinc roof, sprinkled stars on our floor.) [1937, Orestes Barbosa, “Chão de Estrelas [Floor of Stars]” (single), performed by Silvio Caldas, Odeon:]
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Marte tem duas luas, Fobos e Deimos. (Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos.)
Nouns inflected like lua
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
1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lũa, from Latin lūna (“moon”), from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-.
2. Cognate with Galician lúa, Spanish, Italian, and Occitan luna, Catalan lluna, French lune, and Romanian lună. See: Latin Nouns '
lūna', Galician Nouns '
lúa', Catalan Nouns '
lluna', French Nouns '
lune', Romanian Nouns '
lună'.
Verbs referencing "lua"
Italian Nouns
luna, Spanish Nouns
luna, Galician Nouns
lúa.
Translations