Adjective: famento
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | famento |
| Singular f. | famenta |
| Plural m. | famentos |
| Plural f. | famentas |
Sample Sentences
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Et o conde foy logo ferir enos mouros muy de rigeo, assy com̃o a aguia famienta ena caça quando sse quer çeuar (And the count stroke into the Moors very harshly, as the hungry eagle do to his prey when he wants to eat) [c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 142:]
Adjectives inflected like famento
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
Attested circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese famĩento, from Vulgar Latin *faminentus, from Latin famēs (“hunger”). Cognate with Portuguese faminto and Spanish hambriento. See: Portuguese Adjectives '
faminto', Spanish Adjectives '
hambriento'.
Verbs referencing "famento"
Spanish Adjectives
hambriento, Portuguese Adjectives
faminto.
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