Noun: santo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | santo |
| Singular f | santa |
| Plural m | santos |
| Plural f | santas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like santo
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
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese santo, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
santo', Old Portuguese Nouns '
santo', Latin Nouns '
sānctus'.
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