Noun: oriental
Gender: mf
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | oriental |
| Singular f | oriental |
| Plural m | orientais |
| Plural f | orientais |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like oriental
social,
miserável,
corresponsável,
responsável,
arquirrival,
antiliberal,
oriental,
provençal,
ocidental,
capital,
anticlinal,
liberal,
colunável,
lateral,
grammatical,
homossexual,
final,
moral,
boçal,
coral, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃er-der.
3. Proto-Italic *oriōr
4. Latin orior
5. Latin oriēns
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-is
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
9. Proto-Italic *-ālis
10. Latin -ālis
11. Latin orientālislbor.
12. Portuguese oriental
13. Learned borrowing from Latin orientālis. By surface analysis, oriente + -al.
Translations