falangueiro – Galician adjective declension

Galician adjective forms of falangueiro

Adjective: falangueiro

Hyphenation:
Singular m.falangueiro
Singular f.falangueira
Plural m.falangueiros
Plural f.falangueiras

Sample Sentences

  • Axuntaronse os pais da Províncea, repoludos, grosos e ben mantidos ó parecer, máis ledos qu'os mozos nas trulladas, e máis falangueiros qu'unha rapaza de dazasete anos (the fathers of the Province meet, plump, thick and well-fed, apparently happier than young men at a feast, and chattier than a seventeen years old girl) [1877, O tio Marcos da Portela, number 29:]

Adjectives inflected like falangueiro

preguiceiro, metafórico, perdulário, metafísico, anxélico, serbio, sañudo, severo, seguro, sedoso, sabido, atmosférico, estremeiro, romántico, metódico, satisfeito, sonoro, sollío, sobexo, sisudo, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese falagueyro (“flatterer”), from older afalagar (modern afagar), probably from Arabic خَلَقَ (ḵalaqa, “to behave kindly”). Semantically influenced by falar (“to speak”), from Latin fābulāre.
2. Compare Portuguese fagueiro and Spanish halagar. See: Portuguese Adjectives 'fagueiro'.

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