palhaço – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of palhaço

Noun: palhaço
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mpalhaço
Singular fpalhaça
Plural mpalhaços
Plural fpalhaças

Sample Sentences

  • A apresentação do circo contará com palhaços. (The circus presentation will feature clowns.)
  • Esse cara é o palhaço da classe, sempre contando piadas! (That dude is the funny guy in our class, always telling jokes!)
  • Saia da minha frente, seu palhaço! (Out of the way, you imbecile!)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pagliaccio, from paglia (“straw, Portuguese palha”). Compare Spanish payaso and Sicilian pagghiazzu. See: Italian Nouns 'pagliaccio', Spanish Nouns 'payaso'.

Verbs referencing "palhaço"

Spanish Nouns payaso.

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