borboleta – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of borboleta

Noun: borboleta
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fborboleta
Plural fborboletas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like borboleta

palestra, indumentária, metafísica, histerectomia, cumplicidade, serifa, sestra, secura, semana, estrebaria, estreiteza, savana, saroba, sapata, safena, safira, militança, sacada, sacola, sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Old Galician-Portuguese berbeleta of uncertain origin. Possible etymologies include:
2. * Old Galician-Portuguese *belbeleta, from Vulgar Latin *belbellita, from bellus (“beautiful”).
3. * Vulgar Latin *papilitta, from Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly”).
4. Cognate with Galician bolboreta. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'berbeleta', Latin Nouns 'pāpiliō', Galician Nouns 'bolboreta'.

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