Noun: boi
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | boi |
| Singular f | vaca |
| Plural m | bois |
| Plural f | vacas |
Sample Sentences
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Urubu tá com raiva do boi / E eu já sei que ele tem razão / É que o urubu tá querendo comer / Mas o boi não quer morrer / Não tem alimentação (The vulture is angry at the ox / And I already know he's right / It's just that the vulture wanna dine / But the ox dun' wanna die / Ain't no food) [1974, “Urubu tá com raiva do boi”, performed by Baiano e os Novos Caetanos:]
Nouns inflected like boi
boi,
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *gʷṓws
3. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese boi, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull”) (probably through a Vulgar Latin form *boem), accusative of bōs, itself a borrowing from some Osco-Umbrian language dialect, from Proto-Italic *gʷōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Compare Galician boi, and Sicilian voi. Doublet of bife. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
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boi', Latin Nouns '
bos', Galician Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "boi"
Galician Nouns
boi, Latvian Nouns
govs.
Translations