Noun: metal
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | metal |
| Plural m | metais |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like metal
serval,
sobral,
fusível,
funchal,
funeral,
subtotal,
subnível,
bacanal,
bambual,
pantanal,
fatorial,
bissemanal,
eucaliptal,
amigável,
decimal,
bíceps braquial,
brandal,
monocristal,
carvalhal,
potencial, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese metal, from Old Spanish metal, from Old Catalan metall, matall, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”). See: Old Spanish Nouns '
metal', Latin Nouns '
metallum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μέταλλον'.
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