Noun: compañeiro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | compañeiro |
| Singular f | compañeira |
| Plural m | compañeiros |
| Plural f | compañeiras |
Sample Sentences
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It. mando a meus señores et compañeyros os cardeas que ora sson a cada huun dez mrs. que me rrecomenden en suas oraçoes (Item, I bequeath my lords and colleagues, the cardinals [of Saint James] that are at the momment, ten maravedis each one for them to commend me in their prayings) [1387, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 417:]
Nouns inflected like compañeiro
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese companneiro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from compaña (“troop, army”) + -eiro (“-er”); from Late Latin companiō, a calque from Germanic: compare Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “messmate”), Old High German galeipo, from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“together”) + *hlaibaz (“loaf, bread”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
companneiro', Gothic Nouns '
𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰'.
Verbs referencing "compañeiro"
Portuguese Nouns
companheiro.
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