empurrão – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of empurrão

Noun: empurrão
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mempurrão
Plural mempurrões

Sample Sentences

  • Dê um empurrão na porta que ela abre. (Give the door a push and it will open.)
  • Levei um empurrão nas costas e quase caí. (I took a shove to my back and almost fell down.)
  • Os Poꝛtugueſes, ou nam atentaram ou nam tiueram conta com os que vinham, pollo que achegando hũ miniſtro deu hũ grande empurram a hum delles ⁊ ho Poꝛtugues lhe reſpondeo com hũa punhada […] (The Portuguese either did not realize or did not care for those who came, because a minister, when he arrived, gave a big push on one of them, and the Portuguese replied with a punch […]) [1569, Gaspar da Cruz, “Da pꝛeſteza ⁊ pꝛomptidam com que os Louthias ſam seruidos [Of how readily and promptly the fidalgos are served]” (chapter XIX), in Tractado em que ſe cõtam muito poꝛ eſtẽſo as couſas da China […] [Treaty in which the matters of China are told very extensively […]], 1st edition, Andre de Burgos, unnumbered page:]
  • […] mas os miniſtros o tiraraõ daly por força, & lhe deraõ hum tamanho empurraõ, que o eſmecharaõ na cabeça […] ([…] but the ministers took him from there by force, and they gave him such a big push, that they hurt him in the head […]) [a. 1583, Fernão Mendez Pinto, “Do mais que paſſou neſte caſo de Diogo Soarez [Of what else happened in this account with Diogo Soares]” (chapter CXCII), in Peregrinaçam de Fernam Mendez Pinto [Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrination], 1st edition, Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, published 1614, pages 298v–299r:]

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese enpurron. By surface analysis, empurrar + -ão. Cognate with Galician empurrón. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'enpurron', Old Portuguese Nouns 'enpurron', Galician Nouns 'empurrón'.

Verbs referencing "empurrão"

Galician Nouns empurrón.

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