Noun: raio
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | raio |
| Plural m | raios |
Sample Sentences
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apareçeulle Santiago onrrado de vestiduras moi brãquas, armado com̃o caualeiro de moy fremosas armas que esplãdeçia mais que os rrayos do sol (and Santiago showed before him, honorably dressed in very white clothes, armed as a knight with very beauty weapons that shone more that sunrays) [1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 208:]
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Et aquelle Maffomat, rrey de Cordoua, estando estõçe en sua mesquita ffazẽdo ssua orraçõ, feryo hũu rrayo cerca del que matou dous omẽes (And that Muhammad, king of Cordova, being then at his mosque praying, a lightning stroke nearby, killing two men) [c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 49:]
Nouns inflected like raio
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 rayo (independently attested in both corpora), from Latin radius. Doublet of radio and raxo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
rayo', Latin Nouns '
radius'.
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