Noun: orto
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | orto |
| Plural m | ortos |
Sample Sentences
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orto dos uiços do parayſo (garden of the delights of Paradise) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 357 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/639small.gif] facsimile])]
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1525-1526, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Pero Gomes Barroso, B 1540: Pero Lourenço, comprastes (facsimile) (Because no one gave you a vegetable garden there)
Nouns inflected like orto
sabado,
estreleyro,
sobaco,
bezerro,
febreyro,
miradoiro,
pescoço,
perigoo,
cavaleiro,
portuguees,
paranho,
parayso,
afazemento,
deserto,
dereito,
sagrado,
elefante,
biscoito,
fevreyro,
diluvio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin hortus (“garden”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰortós, from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”). See: Latin Nouns '
hortus'.
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