garfo – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: garfo
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	garfo
Plural m	garfos

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like garfo

egocentrismo, lantanídeo, lantanídio, miligrama, flash card, decímetro, fingimento, mililitro, parassuicídio, algómetro, ancoradouro, ancoradoiro, escândalo, sereio, sereno, sestro, seguro, senado, enlatamento, Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese garfio (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin graphium (“pen, stylus”), from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō); influenced by garfa (“claw”), from Andalusian Arabic جَارْفَا (“handful”), from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'garfio', Latin Nouns 'graphium'.

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