Noun: outeiro
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | outeiro |
| Plural m | outeiros |
Sample Sentences
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[…] no cimo de cada uma, um immenso outeiro […] todo coberto de neve, semelhava exactissimamente […] o bico d'um peito. ([…] on the top of each was a vast round hillock covered with snow, exactly corresponding to the nipple on the female breast.) [1891, Eça de Queirós (translator), H. Rider Haggard (English author), As minas de Salomão (King Solomon's Mines), Lugan & Genelioux, page 94]
Nouns inflected like outeiro
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese outeiro, probably from Latin altārium, or a derivative, with the suffix -eiro, of an unattested Old Galician-Portuguese *outo, from Latin altus (“high”) (see alto). Cognate with Galician outeiro and Spanish otero. Doublet of altar. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
outeiro', Latin Nouns '
altārium', Galician Nouns '
outeiro', Spanish Nouns '
otero'.
Verbs referencing "outeiro"
Portuguese Nouns
altar, Spanish Nouns
alto, Spanish Nouns
otero, Galician Nouns
outeiro.
Translations