Noun: boga
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | boga |
| Plural m | bogas |
Sample Sentences
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A cabeça do budio, ante ti a põ, y a da boga, ante tua sogra (The head of the wrasse she places before you, and that of the bogue, before your mother-in-law) [1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes en Romance:]
Nouns inflected like boga
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Late Latin bōca, from Ancient Greek βῶκα (bôka), accusative of βῶξ (bôx), a contracted form of βόαξ (bóax), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”).
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