Noun: culler
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | culler |
| Plural f | culleres |
Sample Sentences
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It. huum marquo de prata en culleres que ten Steuayna. (Item: a silver mark in spoons, in the possession of Stephanie [from an inventory]) [1375, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica:]
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Por o rabo da culler, sube o gato a a ola. (By the handle of the ladle, the cat climbs to the pot) [1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en Romance:]
Nouns inflected like culler
coliflor,
xugular,
beiramar,
calor,
color,
velar,
dor,
col,
tol,
rebor,
baixamar,
anllar,
circular,
manjar,
mulher,
muller,
coller,
culler,
flor,
chor, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cullar, colhar, from Latin coclear, cocleāris (“spoon”). The Galician-Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Portuguese colher. See: Latin Nouns '
coclear', French Nouns '
cuiller', Portuguese Nouns '
colher'.
Verbs referencing "culler"
Portuguese Nouns
colher.
Translations