Noun: pólvora
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pólvora |
| Plural f | pólvoras |
Sample Sentences
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Éramos milhões, até que vieram vilões / O ataque nosso não bastou / Fui de bastão, eles tinham a pólvora / Vi meu povo se apavorar (We were millions, until villains came / Our attack wasn't enough / I had a club, they had gunpowder / I saw my people panicking) [2018, “Corra [Run]”, in O Menino que queria ser Deus [The Boy who wanted to be God], performed by Djonga, Brazil:]
Nouns inflected like pólvora
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
From Spanish pólvora, from Old Catalan polvora, polvera, from Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m. Doublet of pó < *pul(v)us. See: Spanish Nouns '
pólvora', Latin Nouns '
pulvis'.
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