Noun: fiúncho
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fiúncho |
| Plural m | fiúnchos |
Sample Sentences
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depois dalle a comer Cousas caentes asy como trigo, feeo, espelqa ou melga, et dalle a beber agooa caente con vino et con semente de feuncho en booa cuentidade. (then feed him with warm things as wheat, hay, spelt, and give him warm water with wine and with seeds of fennel in good quantity) [1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 91:]
Nouns inflected like fiúncho
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 Old Galician-Portuguese feuncho, from Latin fēnuculum (“fennel”), a diminutive of Latin fēnum (“hay”). Cognate with Portuguese funcho and Spanish hinojo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
feuncho', Latin Nouns '
fēnuculum', Latin Nouns '
fēnum', Portuguese Nouns '
funcho', Spanish Nouns '
hinojo'.
Verbs referencing "fiúncho"
Portuguese Nouns
funcho.
Translations