Noun: fiollo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fiollo |
| Plural m | fiollos |
Sample Sentences
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aquelas a estes dan neste día muitas castañas, mamucas ricas, con fiollo, nébeda e sal cocidas (they give to them, in this day, a lot of chestnuts, tasty chestnuts, boiled with fennel, catnip and salt) [1861, Antonio Fernández Morales, Ensaios poéticos en dialecto berciano, page 211:]
Nouns inflected like fiollo
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 *fẽollo, from Latin fēnuculum (“fennel”), a diminutive of Latin fēnum (“hay”). Cognate of Portuguese funcho, which together with Galician fiúncho stem from an unattested Vulgar Latin form *fenunclu. See: Latin Nouns '
fēnuculum', Latin Nouns '
fēnum', Portuguese Nouns '
funcho'.
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