Noun: pendón
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pendón |
| Plural m | pendóns |
Sample Sentences
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Et alý ouuo muytas feridas de lanças et d'espadas, et muytos pendões ensangoentados, et muytos colpes esquiuos et desapostos, et muytos caualeyros mortos et aontados et fora das sellas. (And there were many wounds of spears and swords, and many bloodied pennons, and many unruly and ugly blows, and many dead and shamed and unsaddled knights) [1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 480:]
Nouns inflected like pendón
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 pendon (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French pennon. Cognate with, among others, Portuguese pendão. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
pendon', Portuguese Nouns '
pendão'.
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