Noun: metade
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | metade |
| Plural f | metades |
Sample Sentences
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Metade homem, metade Deus / E os dois sentem medo de mim (Half man, half God / And both are afraid of me) [2017, “Esú”, performed by Baco Exu do Blues:]
Nouns inflected like metade
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese metade displacing collateral form meiadade, from Late Latin medietātem (“center; midpoint”), from Latin medius (“middle; half”), from Proto-Indo-European *medʰyo- (“between”). Compare Spanish mitad. See: Latin Nouns '
medius', Spanish Nouns '
mitad'.
Verbs referencing "metade"
Spanish Nouns
mitad, Romanian Nouns
jumătate.
Translations