Noun: desinteria
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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[1460, Rui Vasques, [Crónica de Santa María de Iria]; republished as chapter 1, in José António Souto Cabo, editor, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, 2001, page 116:]
Nouns inflected like desinteria
Africa,
nacença,
jornada,
quaraesma,
arrafẽes,
natureza,
desinteria,
astẽença,
merda,
trave,
prata,
prima,
ley,
ora,
paz,
memoria,
amedes,
lediça,
Inglaterra,
carcel, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin dysenteria, borrowed from Ancient Greek δυσεντερία (dusentería), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + ἔντερα (éntera, “bowels”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
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