Noun: testo
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | testo |
| Plural m | testos |
Sample Sentences
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dou lle hũ tal colpe [per] çima do elmo que a espada entrou ata o testo da cabeça (He hit so hard over the helm that the sword entered till the pot [skull] of the head) [1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 137]
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amasa todo en huun et cozeo en ola noua ben cuberta de huun testo, que non posa ende sayr bafo nen fumo (knead everything together and cook it in a new pot, well covered by a lid, so that steam or smoke don't come out) [1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:]
Nouns inflected like testo
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 testo (13th c., Galician texts), from Latin testum. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
testo', Latin Nouns '
testum'.
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