Noun: centeo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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duas tercias de centeo et ha hua de serodeo et hun sesteiro de triigo (two thirds of rye and one of late cereal and a sixth of wheat) [1269, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 928:]
Nouns inflected like centeo
nitróxeno,
sosego,
sogros,
ultrassom,
berilio,
xadrez,
chavismo,
papaventos,
paracaidismo,
medios sociais,
einsteinio,
estripacontos,
xénero humano,
xermanio,
balconismo,
ácido aspártico,
EPI,
mercurio,
iterbio,
fútbol sala, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese centẽo, from Latin centēnus (“a hundred things”), from centum (“a hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Portuguese centeio, Spanish centeno. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
centẽo', Latin Nouns '
centēnus', Portuguese Nouns '
centeio', Spanish Nouns '
centeno'.
Verbs referencing "centeo"
Portuguese Nouns
centeio.
Translations