Adjective: pouco
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | pouco |
| Singular f. | pouca |
| Plural m. | poucos |
| Plural f. | poucas |
Sample Sentences
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O que estaba aa súa esquerda, era tamén alto e roxo e encarnado como a graa. A pesar de ser o máis mozo dos catro, braceaba e berraba largo e tendido, e non se cansaba de falar. Os outros dous serían como de uns 50 anos. Un deles era de mediana estatura, bastante gordo, e parecía de moi boa pasta. O outro era pequeneiro, máis que moreno, alá non moi agraciado, e de poucas palabras (The one on his left was also tall, redheaded and blushed as chochineal. In spite of being the youngest of the four men, he was waving and shouting long and hard, and he never get tired of talking. The other two were some 50 years old. One was of medium height, rather fat, and looked as he was of a good kind. The other was smallish, more than swarthy, not very handsome, and of few words) [1895, Antonio López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, A Coruña: Andrés Martínez, page 30:]
Adjectives inflected like pouco
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
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pouco, from Latin paucus, from Proto-Italic *paukos, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few”, “little”). Compare Portuguese pouco and Spanish poco. See: Latin Adjectives '
paucus', Portuguese Adjectives '
pouco', Spanish Adjectives '
poco'.
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