Noun: estrela
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | estrela |
| Plural f | estrelas |
Sample Sentences
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Saciado, cahiu de papo para cima, olhando as estrellas, que vinham nascendo. (Satisfied, he fell belly-up, looking at the stars, which were coming up.) [1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Mudança [A New Home]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 15:]
Nouns inflected like estrela
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. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese estrela /strela, from Latin stēlla (probably through an unattested regional Latin *strēlla), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr. Doublet of Estela.
2. Cognate with Aragonese estrela, Catalan estrella, French étoile, Galician estrela, Italian stella, Occitan estela, Romanian stea and Spanish estrella. See: Latin Nouns '
stēlla', Latin Nouns '
*strēlla', Catalan Nouns '
estrella', French Nouns '
étoile', Galician Nouns '
estrela', Italian Nouns '
stella', Romanian Nouns '
stea', Spanish Nouns '
estrella'.
Verbs referencing "estrela"
English Nouns
star, Spanish Nouns
estrella.
Translations