Noun: pai
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pai |
| Plural m | pais |
Sample Sentences
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Pai, eu estou saindo com as meninas. (Dad, I'm going out with the girls.)
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Os gregos foram os pais da civilização. (The Greeks were the fathers of civilisation.)
Nouns inflected like pai
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 Old Galician-Portuguese pay < *pade, child-speech forms of padre, from Latin patrem, the accusative of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of padre.
2. Compare mãe (“mother”), which underwent a similar phonetic reduction from its root (Latin mater), and, in addition, was nasalized, perhaps because it was more frequently used than this word.
3. Cognate with Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
pay', Galician Nouns '
pai'.
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