Adjective: xalde
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | xalde |
| Singular f. | xalde |
| Plural m. | xaldes |
| Plural f. | xaldes |
Sample Sentences
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1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 291 (the Trojans had their town very well defended, and I'll tell you how they had their town so strong: their walls were very strong and very tall and made not of clay but of yellow and black and red and brown marble)
Adjectives inflected like xalde
urxente,
somalí,
activista,
monolingüe,
monolingue,
simple,
paciente,
bengalí,
permanente,
chavista,
precedente,
fascista,
contraproducente,
liberticida,
clarividente,
irremediable,
flagelante,
comunicable,
apagable,
influente, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Attested since the 13th century (jalde, jalne), from Old French jalne (“yellow”), from Latin galbinus. See: Latin Adjectives '
galbinus'.
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