Noun: olho
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | olho |
| Plural m | olhos |
Sample Sentences
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[O]s ollos uerdes que eu ui / me façen ora andar aſſi. (The green eyes which I have seen / have made me now be like this.) [13th century, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, João Garcia de Guilhade, A 229: Amigos, non poss'eu negar (facsimile)]
Nouns inflected like olho
sabado,
estreleyro,
sobaco,
bezerro,
febreyro,
miradoiro,
pescoço,
perigoo,
cavaleiro,
portuguees,
paranho,
parayso,
afazemento,
deserto,
dereito,
sagrado,
elefante,
biscoito,
fevreyro,
diluvio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin oclum, from Latin oculum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”). See: Latin Nouns '
oculus'.
Verbs referencing "olho"
Portuguese Nouns
olho, Galician Nouns
ollo.
Translations