rapaz – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of rapaz

Noun: rapaz
Gender: f m Hyphenation:
Singular mrapaz
Singular frapaz; rapaza
Plural mrapaces
Plural frapaces; rapazas

Sample Sentences

  • da outra parte en dereyto estaua hũ rrapaz pequeno [...] tijña ẽna mão hũa pelota pequena, et asynaua pera a deytar á agia, et ela fogía et voaua ata que a pelota passaua per ela (in the other side, on the right, there was a young boy … who held in his hand a small ball, and he was making signals to throw it to the eagle, and the eagle fled and flew until the ball passed by) [1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 440:]

Nouns inflected like rapaz

rapaz,

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese rapaz (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Latin rapāx, rapācem (“who robs, plunders”). See: Latin Nouns 'rapāx'.

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