Noun: vela
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | vela |
| Plural f | velas |
Sample Sentences
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Acendi uma vela para iluminar a sala. (I lit a candle to illuminate the room.)
Nouns inflected like vela
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
Deverbal from velar. Less likely inherited from Latin vigilia. See: Latin Nouns '
vigilia', Latin Nouns '
vigilia'.
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