duque – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of duque

Noun: duque
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mduque
Singular fduquesa
Plural mduques
Plural fduquesas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like duque

duque, tigre, grão-duque, arquiduque,

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese duc (“duke”), borrowed from Old French duc (“duke”), from Latin dux (“ruler”), from dūcō (“to lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Doublet of doge. See: Latin Nouns 'dux'.

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