Noun: colher
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | colher |
| Plural f | colheres |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like colher
bissetriz,
meretriz,
bisectriz,
palidez,
polidez,
diretriz,
eleitriz,
codorniz,
pinador,
nitidez,
micromatriz,
esqualidez,
liminar,
perfuratriz,
cupidez,
dura-máter,
perpendicular,
imperatriz,
pia-máter,
aboiz, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cullar, collar, from Latin cochleārem (“spoon”). The Old Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Galician culler, French cuillère, Spanish cuchara, Catalan cullera. Compare with caracol (“snail”). See: Latin Nouns '
cochlear', French Nouns '
cuiller', Galician Nouns '
culler', French Nouns '
cuillère', Spanish Nouns '
cuchara', Catalan Nouns '
cullera'.
Verbs referencing "colher"
Galician Nouns
culler, Spanish Nouns
cuchara, Italian Nouns
cucchiaio, Catalan Nouns
cullera.
Translations
gather, —to harvest
harvest, to bring in a harvest; reap
harvest, to be occupied bringing in a harvest
harvest, to win, achieve a gain
pick, to remove a fruit or plant for consumption
reap, to receive as a reward