Noun: pretil
Gender: m
Hyphenation: pre‧til
| Singular m | pretil |
| Plural m | pretiles |
Sample Sentences
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Vivimos en el borde de un abismo y el arte nos permite poner frágiles pretiles ante la nada. (We live on the edge of an abyss, and art allows us to place fragile walls against the nothingness.) [2015 July 5, “Un dinosaurio al borde del abismo”, in El País:]
Nouns inflected like pretil
ionizador,
serbal,
serial,
serpol,
serval,
depurador,
sector,
sentir,
sensor,
senior,
sauzal,
sartal,
safrol,
santol,
saibey,
salmer,
urunday,
definidor,
cristóbal,
superconductor, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Metathesis of older petril, from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *pectōrīlis, *pectōrīle, from Latin pectus (“chest”). Compare Portuguese peitoril. See: Latin Nouns '
pectus', Portuguese Nouns '
peitoril'.
Verbs referencing "pretil"
Galician Nouns
peitoril, Portuguese Nouns
peitoril.
Translations