Noun: falangueiro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | falangueiro |
| Singular f | falangueira |
| Plural m | falangueiros |
| Plural f | falangueiras |
Sample Sentences
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deliura con teu amingo todalas cousas que ouueres (a fazer). primeyramente sabe quen he el. porque moytos (omees) que pareçen amingos de fora. e son falagueyros de parauua que an a uoentade contraria do que demostran (deliberate with you friend every matter, but fist you must know who he is; because many men that look like friends are word flatterers who have the contrary will than that which they show) [c1275, Eladio Oviedo Arce (ed.), "Fragmento de una versión gallega del Código de Las Partidas de Alfonso el Sabio", in López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 6]
Nouns inflected like falangueiro
preguiceiro,
metafísico,
serbio,
entomólogo,
estreleiro,
cunqueiro,
becerro,
palestino,
granxeiro,
georgiano,
kiribatiano,
escandinavo,
chadiano,
tamborileiro,
antónimo,
búlgaro,
alcohólico,
milenario,
mauritano,
anglofóbico, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese falagueyro (“flatterer”), from older afalagar (modern afagar), probably from Arabic خَلَقَ (ḵalaqa, “to behave kindly”). Semantically influenced by falar (“to speak”), from Latin fābulāre.
2. Compare Portuguese fagueiro and Spanish halagar. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
falagueyro', Portuguese Nouns '
fagueiro'.
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