Noun: hermano
Gender: m
Hyphenation: her‧ma‧no
| Singular m | hermano |
| Singular f | hermana |
| Plural m | hermanos |
| Plural f | hermanas |
Sample Sentences
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Yo tengo tantos hermanos / Que no los puedo contar / Y una novia muy hermosa / Que se llama Libertad [1970, “Los Hermanos”, Atahualpa Yupanqui (lyrics), performed by Atahualpa Yupanqui:]
Nouns inflected like hermano
botellero,
paletero,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
gibareño,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
evacuado,
subprefecto,
miliciano,
gibelino,
moguereño,
angloamericano,
sereno,
serbio,
gregario,
seboso,
sedero,
cristiano,
babilonio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish ermano, from Vulgar Latin *germānus (“brother”), from Latin germānus (“of a brother or sister”). Compare English germane. Displaced Old Spanish fradre, from Latin fratēr. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
ermano', Old Spanish Nouns '
ermano', Latin Nouns '
germānus', English Nouns '
germane', Latin Nouns '
fratēr'.
Verbs referencing "hermano"
Portuguese Nouns
irmão, Galician Nouns
irmán, Catalan Nouns
germà.
Translations