focinho – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: focinho
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	focinho
Plural m	focinhos

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like focinho

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

1. From Vulgar Latin faucinus, a diminutive of Latin faucēs (“throat, gullet”). Alternatively, influenced by Spanish hocicar (“to root with the nose”), ultimately from Latin fodere (“to dig”).
2. Cognate with Galician fociño. Compare also Spanish hocico and Asturian focicu. See: Latin Nouns 'faucēs', Latin Nouns 'fodiō', Galician Nouns 'fociño', Spanish Nouns 'hocico', Asturian Nouns 'focicu'.

Verbs referencing "focinho"

Asturian Nouns focicu, Galician Nouns fociño.

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