cálcio – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: cálcio
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	cálcio
Plural m	cálcios

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like cálcio

egocentrismo, lantanídeo, lantanídio, miligrama, flash card, decímetro, fingimento, mililitro, parassuicídio, algómetro, ancoradouro, ancoradoiro, escândalo, sereio, sereno, sestro, seguro, senado, enlatamento, Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin calcium, a word derived by Sir Humphry Davy in 1808, from Latin calx (“lime, limestone”), supposedly from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”). See: Latin Nouns 'calx', Ancient Greek Nouns 'χάλιξ'.

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