macho – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of macho

Noun: macho
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mmacho
Plural mmachos

Sample Sentences

  • Item mãdo ao moeſteyro de Santiago d Ermelo o meu quinõ das egóás que eu auya cũ Johan Martinz, o ffrade [...] os fillos que ſon machos que os vendan ſe quiſeren vender τ aſ egoas que fiquen cũ ſuas fillas femeas
  • Item, I bequeath my share of the mares that I have together with Xoán Martís, the friar, to the monastery of Santiago de Ermelo … the sons which are males shall be sold if they [the monks] wanted to, and the mares shall remain with their female daughters [1299, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 211]
  • Endemal! non falás rouco,
  • mais eu à tanto desfacho,
  • (como dixo ô ôutro) a macho
  • que hè lerdo, arrieiro louco.
  • Por moito que eu malle, hè pouco;
  • que a quen do principio aò cabo,
  • sin fazer caso do crabo,
  • tàs peras tira meu frade,
  • conven (xiquera à semade)
  • que lle zorreguen ô rabo. (Alas! you don't speak rough,
  • but I, to such impertinence,
  • as they say, to dumb mule,
  • mad muleteer.
  • No matter how much I strike, is not enough;
  • because to whom, beginning to end,
  • not paying attention to the nail,
  • your pears drop, my friar,
  • it is advisable (at least summarily)
  • that they whip their tail) [c. 1771, anonymous, Rosario Álvarez, Ernesto González, editors, Décima xiringatoria:]

Nouns inflected like macho

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 from the 13th century. From Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus (“male”). Cognate with Spanish macho and Portuguese macho. See: Latin Nouns 'masculus', Spanish Nouns 'macho', Portuguese Nouns 'macho'.

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