Noun: pavón
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pavón |
| Plural m | pavóns |
Sample Sentences
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o pauõ mostra a vida dos rricos, que ẽnobreçẽ, et afeytam, et cõpoem suas deanteyras et leyxam descuberta moy torpemẽte sua postromaria (the peacocks show the lifestyle of the rich people, who grace, and adorn, and set up their front sides and let their backsides clumsily uncovered) [1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria, Oviedo: Archivum, page 259:]
Nouns inflected like pavón
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 pavon (independently attested in both corpora), from Latin pāvōnem, accusative singular of pāvō. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
pavon'.
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