Noun: fuso
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fuso |
| Plural m | fusos |
Sample Sentences
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Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro. (lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly) [1911, Francisco Portela Pérez, O pé da lareira:]
Nouns inflected like fuso
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
Attested since the 18th century (the derivative parafuso (“screw”) since the 13th century). From Latin fūsus. See: Latin Nouns '
fūsus'.
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