macaco – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: macaco
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	macaco
Singular f	macaca
Plural m	macacos
Plural f	macacas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like macaco

desamparado, perdulário, metafísico, epistemólogo, miliciano, celibatário, fiduciário, favelado, janeleiro, safado, sancto, entomólogo, ostrogodo, sisudo, bucaneiro, alentejano, beduíno, faroleiro, palestino, georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Unknown. Thought to have been borrowed from a Bantu language. Bantu maka, "cat", comes from -mañga (an old East African Bantu word for the sea-coast, often applied to any strange or foreign product). But it seems unlikely that the Bantu would have used such a word to denote familiar animals like apes and monkeys. However, none of the many Bantu words for apes and monkeys resembles "macaco". Other suggested derivations include:
2. * from Kongo makaku (“monkeys”)
3. * from a language of Madagascar (compare macaco, macauco, maucaco (“any of several lemurs”), perhaps related to maky);
4. * from Kari'na macaca (“simian”), though it may have been loaned into Galibi from a language of African slaves;
5. * from dialectal French macao (“cat; monkey; long-tailed monkey”), allegedly used in Normandy and Berry.

Verbs referencing "macaco"

English Nouns macaco, Italian Nouns macaco, Spanish Nouns macaco, English Nouns macaque, French Nouns macaque, German Nouns Makake, Finnish Nouns makaki, Dutch Nouns makaak, Dutch Nouns makak, Romanian Nouns macac, Bulgarian Nouns макак.

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