conto – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of conto

Noun: conto
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mconto
Plural mcontos

Sample Sentences

  • Anque à prea non hègrande
  • si ca si, ò sacristan
  • disque à pestàna do figado
  • se lle hiba alegrando já.
  • Ô cont'hè, si enturra n'eso
  • Deus me libre das suas más,
  • que'anque eu non queira, na Coba
  • de chantarme heche capàz. (Although the booty is not large,
  • yes and yes, the sacristan
  • they say that his liver's eyes
  • were brightening already.
  • The issue is, if he persists,
  • God save me from his hands,
  • that even if I don't want, in the grave
  • me he is capable of thusting me) [1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:]

Nouns inflected like conto

miligramo, mililitro, acontecemento, urodelo, ancoradoiro, vimieiro, serrón, sesego, sedeño, iceberg, sarrio, sabuio, sabugo, sabujo, sabuxo, sabelo, sangue, saibro, saltón, salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese conto, from Vulgar Latin, from Latin computus (“calculation”). Doublet of cómputo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'conto', Old Portuguese Nouns 'conto', Latin Nouns 'computus'.

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