Noun: camelo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | camelo |
| Singular f | camela |
| Plural m | camelos |
| Plural f | camelas |
Sample Sentences
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Non quereu donzela fea / Que […] faça come cameles. (I do not want an ugly maiden who stinks like a camel.) [13th century, Afonso X, [cantiga 476]; republished as Angelo Colocci, compiler, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Italy, c. 1525–1526, cantiga 476:]
Nouns inflected like camelo
barbaro,
passaro,
namorado,
baesteiro,
ligeyro,
castelão,
amigo,
fillo,
filho,
louco,
menỹo,
bogio,
irmão,
judio,
preso,
tio,
santo,
yrmão,
zevro,
aldeião, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *camēllus, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. Cognate with Old Spanish camello. See: Latin Nouns '
camēlus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κάμηλος', Old Spanish Nouns '
camello'.
Verbs referencing "camelo"
Galician Nouns
camelo, Portuguese Nouns
camelo.
Translations