Noun: escudeiro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | escudeiro |
| Plural m | escudeiros |
Sample Sentences
-
Aquí jaz jan feyjoo escudeyro / bon fidalgo e verdadeyro gran / caçador e monteyro (Here lies Jan Feijoo, squire, a good nobleman and a true great hunter and ranger) [1414, in the tombstone of a nobleman]
Nouns inflected like escudeiro
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese escudeiro, escudeyro, from Late Latin scūtārius, from Latin scūtum (“shield”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
escudeiro', Latin Nouns '
scūtum'.
Translations