Noun: louco
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | louco |
| Singular f | louca |
| Plural m | loucos |
| Plural f | loucas |
Sample Sentences
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Cada louco coa sua teima (Each madman with his obsession)
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o dito Nuno da Praça que lle disera moitas maas palabras et desonrras et ynjurias, ontre las quaes diso que lle disera "vello royn, bébedo, louco, sandio, desuariado" (said Nuno da Praza told him many bad words and affronts and defamations, among them he said that he was said "mean old man, drunkard, madman, fool, deslusional") [1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 389:]
Nouns inflected like louco
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
Unknown. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese louco, lauco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from Andalusian Arabic لَوَق (lawaq, “stupidity”), from Arabic لاق (lāq, “to soften”). Compare Portuguese louco, Spanish loco, and Sicilian loccu. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
louco', Old Portuguese Nouns '
louco', Portuguese Nouns '
louco', Spanish Nouns '
loco'.
Verbs referencing "louco"
Portuguese Nouns
louco.
Translations