Noun: mexilhão
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | mexilhão |
| Plural m | mexilhões |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like mexilhão
sermão,
sertão,
sardão,
saguão,
salmão,
comunhão,
ciclotrão,
furacão,
melocotão,
mergulhão,
empurrão,
criovulcão,
botijão,
batelão,
bastião,
pelotão,
zircão,
zilião,
zilhão,
papelão, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mixillon, from Vulgar Latin *muscelliō (“mussel”), from Latin muscellus, from Latin musculus (“muscle, mussel”). Cognate of Galician mexillón and of Spanish mejillón (“mussel”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
mixillon', Old Portuguese Nouns '
mixillon', Latin Nouns '
muscellus', Latin Nouns '
musculus', Galician Nouns '
mexillón', Spanish Nouns '
mejillón'.
Verbs referencing "mexilhão"
Spanish Nouns
mejillón, Galician Nouns
mexillón.
Translations