Noun: reiseñor
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | reiseñor |
| Plural m | reiseñores |
Sample Sentences
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un sinfín de paxaros ben cantores
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reiseñores o xílgaro e o sirín (an endless number of singing birds:
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nightingales, the goldfinch and the serin) [1853, Juan Manuel Pintos, A Gaita Gallega:]
Nouns inflected like reiseñor
solpor,
ordenador,
xograr,
xantar,
xaguar,
chamador,
branquexador,
petador,
batedor,
detonador,
cobertor,
multiplicador,
comparador,
proxector,
gerador,
reiseñor,
humidificador,
chuchamel,
glaciar,
traballador, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese ruissennor (14th century, Alfonso Álvarez de Villasandino), borrowed from Old Occitan rossinhol, from Vulgar Latin *lusciniolus, diminutive of Classical Latin luscinia (“nightingale”). Cognate with Portuguese rouxinol and Spanish ruiseñor. See: Latin Nouns '
luscinia', Portuguese Nouns '
rouxinol', Spanish Nouns '
ruiseñor'.
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