Noun: mão
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | mão |
| Plural f | mãos |
Sample Sentences
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Como hũa moller q̇ iogaua os dados en pulla lançou hũa pedra aa omagen de ſ[ant]a mari[a] por q̇ perdera ⁊ parou un angeo de pedra que y eſtava a mão ⁊ reçibiu o colpe. (How a woman who was playing dice in Apulia threw a stone at the statue of Holy Mary because she had lost, and an angel of stone which was there reached out its hand and received the blow.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 294 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/524small.gif] facsimile])]
Nouns inflected like mão
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin manum (“hand”). See: Latin Nouns '
manus', Latin Nouns '
manus'.
Verbs referencing "mão"
Galician Nouns
man, Old Spanish Nouns
mano, Portuguese Nouns
mão, Galician Nouns
mao.
Translations