semelhança – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of semelhança

Noun: semelhança
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fsemelhança
Plural fsemelhanças
uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like semelhança

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

1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese semelhança, possibly from a Vulgar Latin *similiantia, from Late Latin similantia, plural of similāns (“similar”), from Latin similō (“to imitate”). By surface analysis, semelhar + -ança.
2. Compare Galician semellanza, Spanish semejanza, Catalan semblança, French ressemblance (Old French semblance), Italian somiglianza. See: Latin Nouns 'similō', Galician Nouns 'semellanza', Spanish Nouns 'semejanza', Catalan Nouns 'semblança', French Nouns 'ressemblance', Italian Nouns 'somiglianza'.

Verbs referencing "semelhança"

Italian Nouns somiglianza, Spanish Nouns semejanza, Catalan Nouns semblança, Galician Nouns semellanza.

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