Noun: rens
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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reerás primeiramente os lombos ou as rẽes do cavalo (you will first shave the horse's back and the smalls of the back) [1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 191:]
Nouns inflected like rens
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese rẽes (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rēnes (“kidneys”). Cognate with Portuguese rim, rins. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
rẽes', Latin Nouns '
ren', Portuguese Nouns '
rim'.
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