Noun: joelho
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | joelho |
| Plural m | joelhos |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like joelho
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
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gẽolho, with metathesis, from Late Latin genuculum, alteration of Latin geniculum, diminutive of genū (“knee”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵónu. Compare Galician xeonllo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
gẽolho', Old Portuguese Nouns '
gẽolho', Latin Nouns '
geniculum', Galician Nouns '
xeonllo'.
Verbs referencing "joelho"
French Nouns
genou, Galician Nouns
xeonllo, Asturian Nouns
xinoyu.
Translations