Noun: preto
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | preto |
| Singular f | preta |
| Plural m | pretos |
| Plural f | pretas |
Sample Sentences
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O preto é a mais escura das cores. (Black is the darkest colour.)
Nouns inflected like preto
desamparado,
perdulário,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
miliciano,
celibatário,
fiduciário,
favelado,
janeleiro,
safado,
sancto,
entomólogo,
ostrogodo,
sisudo,
bucaneiro,
alentejano,
beduíno,
faroleiro,
palestino,
georgiano, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese preto (“black, near”), from earlier *apreto, from apretar (Modern Portuguese apertar (“tighten, press, clamp”)), from Late Latin appectorāre, from Latin pectus (“chest”). The semantic evolution to "black" or "dark" comes through the sense of "dense" or "thick". Another common, but less likely, etymology suggested is a Vulgar Latin *prettus, from pressus.
2. Doublet of perto. Cognate with Galician preto, Asturian and Leonese prietu, Ladino preto, and Spanish prieto. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
preto', Latin Nouns '
pectus', Galician Nouns '
preto'.
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