covardia – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: covardia
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f

covardia

uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like covardia

amizade colorida, papas na língua, lexiologia, sandes, febre aftosa, juventude, difteria, ecolinguística, cientologia, sharia, cardinalidade, borreliose, antissepsia, arsfenamina, alcaptonuria, ufologia, alcaptonúria, glaciologia, acidólise, novilíngua, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese covardia, from covarda, from Old French coart, cuard, from coe (“tail”) + -ard (“pejorative agent noun”); coe is in turn from Latin cauda. The reference seems to be to an animal “turning tail”, or having its tail between its legs, especially a dog. See: Latin Nouns 'cauda'.

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