Noun: central
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | central |
| Plural f | centrais |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like central
sucursal,
laringal,
palatal,
digital,
semi-final,
cervical,
central,
semivogal,
semifinal,
variável,
catedral,
interestadual,
espiral,
estatal,
vogal,
suprarrenal,
trienal,
dorsal,
antidiagonal,
apical, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
3. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der.
4. Latin centrum
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
6. Proto-Indo-European *-is
7. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
8. Proto-Italic *-ālis
9. Latin -ālis
10. Latin centrālisbor.
11. Portuguese central
12. Borrowed from Latin centrālis. By surface analysis, centro + -al.
Translations