Noun: anel
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | anel |
| Plural m | anéis |
Sample Sentences
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— Peço que me escutem! como sou o unico pobre que aqui está, e como todas as circumstancias são em meu desfavor, podem julgar que fui eu que roubei esse annel. (I ask that you listen to me! as I am the only poor person standing here, and as the circumstances are against me, you can determine that I was the one who stole this ring.) [1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]^(https://pt.wikisource.org/wiki/Contos_e_phantasias_(Maria_Amália_Vaz_de_Carvalho,_1905)), 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 96:]
Nouns inflected like anel
xairel,
decibel,
plantel,
broquel,
hidromel,
quartel,
carrossel,
coquetel,
capitel,
canistel,
apart-hotel,
carretel,
aerogel,
artel,
gazel,
motel,
batel,
hotel,
tonel,
papel, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese anel, borrowed from Old Occitan anel, from Latin ānellus (“finger ring”). Doublet of elo, which was inherited. Cognates include Catalan anell, French anneau, Italian anello, Spanish anillo.
2. Sense 2 likely comes from the round form of the anus. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
anel', Latin Nouns '
ānellus', Catalan Nouns '
anell', French Nouns '
anneau', Italian Nouns '
anello', Spanish Nouns '
anillo'.
Verbs referencing "anel"
Italian Nouns
anello, Spanish Nouns
anillo, French Nouns
anneau, Catalan Nouns
anell.
Translations