roxo – Galician adjective declension

Galician adjective forms of roxo

Adjective: roxo

Hyphenation:
Singular m.roxo
Singular f.roxa
Plural m.roxos
Plural f.roxas

Sample Sentences

  • SANTO DA BARBA DOURADA,
  • vello honrado, meu patrón;
  • raio, fillo do trebón,
  • capitán da roxa espada;
  • señor da cruz colorada,
  • valente e forte guerreiro,
  • a quen todo o mundo enteiro,
  • polo mar e pola terra,
  • chama, na paz e na guerra,
  • Santiago o cabaleiro. (Saint of the Golden Beard,
  • honoured old man, my lord;
  • lightning, son of the storm,
  • captain of the red sword;
  • lord of the red cross,
  • bold and brave warrior,
  • whom the whole world,
  • by sea and land,
  • call, in peace and war,
  • Saint James the knight.) [1617, Martín Torrado, Santo da Barba Dourada:]
  • Cun ferro ben roxo lle cautrizaría eu a léngoa ás víboras de que falo, que non son das que s'enzoufan por entr'as silveiras i os fentos, sinón das que, máis piligrosas, encobren o seu veneno i a súa maldade dandose moitos golpes no peito. (With a red-hot iron I would cauterize the tongues of the vipers I'm talking about, which are not the ones that get dirty entering among the brambles and ferns, but the more dangerous ones, those which hide their venom and meanness beating their breast.) [1876, O Tío Marcos da Portela, number 7:]

Adjectives inflected like roxo

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese roxo (“dark red”), from Latin russeus (“dark red”), from russus (“red”).

Verbs referencing "roxo"

Portuguese Adjectives roxo.

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