Noun: pexego
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pexego |
| Plural m | pexegos |
Sample Sentences
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non daredes de prexegos, nen de figos (you will not give peaches nor figs) [1366, M .Lucas Alvarez, M. & P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media, Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 520:]
Nouns inflected like pexego
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
Attested since the 13th century (prexego, prexigo); from Latin persicum (“peach”), ellipsis of persicum pōmum (“Persian fruit”). Cognate with Portuguese pêssego. See: Latin Nouns '
persicum', Portuguese Nouns '
pêssego'.
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