Noun: calcañar
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | calcañar |
| Plural m | calcañares |
Sample Sentences
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1435, A. López Carreira, Fragmentos de notarios, doc. E2-8 (... they approached said Goterre Afonso and that the mentioned Fernando de Mourelos extracted the sword from its scabbard against said Goterre Afonso, for killing him; and his companions, as they saw this, helped him against said Goterre Afonso, and consequently he gave him a large wound in the left leg, in which he injured him from under the knee till the heel)
Nouns inflected like calcañar
solpor,
ordenador,
xograr,
xantar,
xaguar,
chamador,
branquexador,
petador,
batedor,
detonador,
cobertor,
multiplicador,
comparador,
proxector,
gerador,
reiseñor,
humidificador,
chuchamel,
glaciar,
traballador, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese calcannar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from calcaño + -ar. Alternatively from Vulgar Latin *calcaneare. Cognate with Portuguese calcanhar. See: Portuguese Nouns '
calcanhar'.
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