Noun: palabra
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | palabra |
| Plural f | palabras |
Sample Sentences
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mando que paguem a gomez ballo quanto el diser por sua palaura sem juramento quelle deuo (I order that they should pay Gómez Ballo whatever he say by his word that I owe him, no oath needed) [1375, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 381:]
Nouns inflected like palabra
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese palavra, with hyperthesis from earlier paravla, from Late Latin, from Latin parabola (“comparison; later, speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ, “comparison; parable”). Doublet of parábola and parola. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
palavra', Latin Nouns '
parabola', Ancient Greek Nouns '
παραβολή'.
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