Noun: ave
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | ave |
| Plural f | aves |
Sample Sentences
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Todas as aves têm asas. (All birds have wings.)
Nouns inflected like ave
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 ave (“bird”), from Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Italic *awis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis (“bird”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
ave', Latin Nouns '
avis'.
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