Noun: sirgo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | sirgo |
| Plural m | sirgos |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sirgo
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese sirgo (“silk, silkworm”), from Latin sēricus (“made of silk”), from Seres (“the Chinese”), from Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “China, the Chinese”), possibly from Mandarin 絲 /丝 (sī, “silk”). Doublet of sérico. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
sirgo', Latin Nouns '
sēricus'.
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