irmão – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of irmão

Noun: irmão
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mirmão
Singular firmã
Plural mirmãos
Plural firmãs

Sample Sentences

  • O meu irmão mais velho vai casar-se. (My older brother is getting married.)
  • Eu tenho quatro irmãos: dois irmãos e duas irmãs. (I have four siblings: two brothers and two sisters.)
  • Irmão Maynard, leia o primeiro versículo do Livro dos Armamentos. (Brother Maynard, read the first verse from the Book of Armaments.)
  • Esse cara aqui é meu irmão, comigo para o que der e vier. (This guy here is my brother, with me through ups and downs.)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese irmão (“brother”), from Latin germānus (“brother”), from the adjective germānus (“of true siblings”), from germen (“sprout, bud”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ (“offspring, seed”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, to give birth”). Cognates include Galician irmán, Mirandese armano, Asturian hermanu, and Spanish hermano. Doublet of germano, a learned borrowing, and hermano, a borrowing from Spanish. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'irmão', Old Portuguese Nouns 'irmão', Latin Nouns 'germānus', Galician Nouns 'irmán', Asturian Nouns 'hermanu', Spanish Nouns 'hermano'.

Verbs referencing "irmão"

Galician Nouns irmán.

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