Noun: martes
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Os outros dias da semana teuerom et téém et am os antigóós [nomes] quelles os [gentijs] poserõ das planetas: o lues da lũa, o martes de Mars, o mercoles de Mercurio, o joues de Jupyter, o vernes de Venus (the other days of the week had and have the old names which the pagans gave to them, from the planets: Monday of the Moon, Tuesday of Mars, Wednesday of Mercury, Thursday of Jupiter, Friday of Venus) [c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 94:]
Nouns inflected like martes
nitróxeno,
sosego,
sogros,
ultrassom,
berilio,
xadrez,
chavismo,
papaventos,
paracaidismo,
medios sociais,
einsteinio,
estripacontos,
xénero humano,
xermanio,
balconismo,
ácido aspártico,
EPI,
mercurio,
iterbio,
fútbol sala, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese martes, from Latin Mārtis dīes, variant of diēs Mārtis. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
martes', Old Portuguese Nouns '
martes', Latin Nouns '
Mārtis dīes'.
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