Noun: rosto
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | rosto |
| Plural m | rostos |
Sample Sentences
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Era difícil dizer se a professora os ouvira, pois seu rosto estava oculto pelas sombras. (It was difficult to tell whether the teacher had heard them, because her face was hidden by the shadows.) [2000, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 240:]
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Então o sorriso reapareceu em seu rosto [...] (Then the smile reappeared in his face …) [2003, J. K. Rowling, Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 417:]
Nouns inflected like rosto
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
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rosto, rostro, from Latin rōstrum. Doublet of rostro, a learned borrowing. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
rosto', Old Portuguese Nouns '
rosto', Latin Nouns '
rōstrum'.
Verbs referencing "rosto"
Asturian Nouns
rostru.
Translations