sobrancelha – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of sobrancelha

Noun: sobrancelha
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fsobrancelha
Plural fsobrancelhas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like sobrancelha

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

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sobrancelha, sobrencelha, from Latin supercilia, plural of supercilium (“eyebrow”), from super (“above”) + cilium (“eyelid”). Doublet of supercílio. A nasal infix developed in Portuguese, as with Romansh survantscheglia; cf. also Romanian sprânceană. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'sobrencelha', Old Portuguese Nouns 'sobrencelha', Latin Nouns 'supercilia', Romanian Nouns 'sprânceană'.

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