Noun: rancor
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | rancor |
| Plural m | rancores |
Sample Sentences
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estauan en moytas cartas de scomoion et testemoyos et eran en grande descordia et anduan en odios et rancores (they were in many excommunicaton charters and litigations and they were in large discord and hate and rancor) [1446, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 635:]
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1612, Pedro Vázquez de Neira, "Soneto", in Gómez Tónel, Exequias (that rancor that eats away and cracks through you)
Nouns inflected like rancor
solpor,
ordenador,
xograr,
xantar,
xaguar,
chamador,
branquexador,
petador,
batedor,
detonador,
cobertor,
multiplicador,
comparador,
proxector,
gerador,
reiseñor,
humidificador,
chuchamel,
glaciar,
traballador, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since the 15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Old Galicia-Portuguese rancura, 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rancor. See: Latin Nouns '
rancor'.
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