Adjective: branco
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | branco |
| Singular f. | branca |
| Plural m. | brancos |
| Plural f. | brancas |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like branco
desamparado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
autotrófico,
saxónico,
saxônico,
eslávico,
bandeiroso,
inescrupuloso,
desavergonhado,
babilónio,
babilônio,
super-humano,
acidêmico,
sereno,
sestro,
severo,
celibatário,
seboso, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der.
4. Proto-Germanic *blinkaną
5. Proto-Germanic *blankaz
6. Frankish *blankbor.
7. Early Medieval Latin blancus
8. Old Galician-Portuguese branco
9. Portuguese branco
10. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese branco, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, borrowed from Frankish *blank. Cognate with Galician branco, Spanish blanco. Doublet of Blanco and Bianca. See: Galician Adjectives '
branco', Spanish Adjectives '
blanco'.
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