Noun: cristal
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cristal |
| Plural m | cristais |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cristal
serval,
sobral,
fusível,
funchal,
funeral,
subtotal,
subnível,
bacanal,
bambual,
pantanal,
fatorial,
bissemanal,
eucaliptal,
amigável,
decimal,
bíceps braquial,
brandal,
monocristal,
carvalhal,
potencial, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cristal, crestal, from Latin crystallum (“crystal, ice”), from Ancient Greek κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “clear ice”), from κρύος (krúos, “frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *krus-, *kru- (“hard, hard outer surface, crust”). See: Latin Nouns '
crystallum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κρύσταλλος'.
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