manteiga – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: manteiga
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	manteiga
Plural f	manteigas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like manteiga

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 manteiga, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Paleo-Hispanic such as Iberian or Celtiberian.
2. Cognate with Galician and Mirandese manteiga, Asturian and Catalan mantega, Spanish and Aragonese manteca and possibly with Proto-Slavic *sъmetana (“sour cream”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'manteiga', Old Portuguese Nouns 'manteiga'.

Verbs referencing "manteiga"

Romanian Nouns brânză, Galician Nouns manteiga, Catalan Nouns mantega, Spanish Nouns manteca.

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