rábano – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of rábano

Noun: rábano
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mrábano
Plural mrábanos

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Etymology

Probably borrowed from Spanish rábano, from Latin raphanus, from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos). A native variant rábão also exists, reflecting the expected loss of intervocalic Latin /n/ and showing /b/ for an original Latin /p/, a sound frequently used in borrowings to render the Ancient Greek /pʰ/. According to da Cunha, rábano and rábão are first attested in 1813, and a variant rabom was first attested in the 15th century. Compare Galician ravo, Catalan rave, and Italian rafano. See: Spanish Nouns 'rábano', Latin Nouns 'raphanus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ῥάφανος', Galician Nouns 'ravo', Catalan Nouns 'rave', Italian Nouns 'rafano'.

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