pobreza – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: pobreza
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	pobreza
Plural f	pobrezas

uncountable

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like pobreza

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 pobreza, from pobre (“poor”) + -eza (“-ness; -ity”), from Latin pauper (“poor”), from *pavo-pars (“getting little”), from Proto-Indo-European *pau- (“smallness”). By surface analysis, pobre + -eza. See: Latin Nouns 'pauper'.

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