Noun: rio
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | rio |
| Plural m | rios |
Sample Sentences
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O Tejo é mais bello que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia (The Tagus is more beautiful than the river that flows through my village) [1914, Alberto Caeiro, O Tejo é mais belo que o rio que corre pela minha aldeia:]
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Ganhamos um rio de dinheiro. (We earned a truckload of money.)
Nouns inflected like rio
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. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rio (“river”), from Vulgar Latin rius (“river”), from Latin rīvus (“a small stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rih₂wós, from *h₃reyh₂- (“to flow; to move or set in motion”) and *-wós.
2. Cognate with Galician río, Spanish río, Catalan riu, Occitan riu, French ru, Italian rio, rivo and Romanian râu. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
rio', Old Portuguese Nouns '
rio', Latin Nouns '
rīvus', Galician Nouns '
río', Spanish Nouns '
río', Catalan Nouns '
riu', French Nouns '
ru', Italian Nouns '
rio', Romanian Nouns '
râu'.
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