Noun: pau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pau |
| Plural m | paus |
Sample Sentences
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Isso custou uns 500 paus. (That cost about 500 bucks.)
Nouns inflected like pau
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 pao, from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. Compare Galician pau, Asturian palu, and Spanish palo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
pao', Old Portuguese Nouns '
pao', Latin Nouns '
pālus', Galician Nouns '
pau', Asturian Nouns '
palu', Spanish Nouns '
palo'.
Verbs referencing "pau"
Galician Nouns
pau.
Translations