céu – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of céu

Noun: céu
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mcéu
Plural mcéus

Sample Sentences

  • O céu é azul. (The sky is blue.)
  • Tocou o braço da mulher, apontou o ceo, ficaram os dois algum tempo aguentando a claridade do sol. (He touched his wife’s arm, pointed at the sky, and the two stayed for some time putting up with the sun’s brightness.) [1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Mudança [A New Home]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 13:]
  • O Fado nasceu um dia, / quando o vento mal bulia / e o céu o mar prolongava, / na amurada dum veleiro, / no peito dum marinheiro / que, estando triste, cantava. (Fado was born one day, / when the wind was blowing hard / and the sky was extending the sea, / in the bulwark of a ship, / in the chest of a sailor / who, being sad, was singing.) [1965, Amália Rodrigues, Fado Português:]
  • Então continuaram a estudar enquanto o céu lá fora se tornava gradualmente mais escuro. (Then they continued to study while the sky outside was becoming gradually darker.) [2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 246:]
  • Ir para o céu. (To go to heaven.)
  • Como é bom ir para o céo! Nunca mais hei-de ter frio! (It feels so good to go to heaven! I’ll never feel cold again!) [1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A morte de Bertha [Bertha’s death]”, 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 236:]

Etymology

1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ceo (“sky; heaven”), from Latin caelum (“sky”), from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.
2. Cognate with Galician ceo, Spanish cielo, Catalan cel, Occitan cèl, French ciel, Italian cielo and Romanian cer. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'ceo', Old Portuguese Nouns 'ceo', Latin Nouns 'caelum', Galician Nouns 'ceo', Spanish Nouns 'cielo', Catalan Nouns 'cel', French Nouns 'ciel', Italian Nouns 'cielo', Romanian Nouns 'cer'.

Verbs referencing "céu"

Galician Nouns ceo.

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