sexta-feira – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: sexta-feira
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	sexta-feira
Plural f	sextas-feiras

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like sexta-feira

sexta-feira,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Latin fēriaebf.
3. Latin fēria
4. Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
6. Proto-Indo-European *swéḱstos
7. Proto-Italic *sekstos
8. Latin sexta
9. Ecclesiastical Latin sexta fērialbor.
10. Old Galician-Portuguese sesta feira
11. Portuguese sexta-feira
12. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sesta feira (“Friday”), a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin sexta fēria (“Friday”, literally “sixth weekday”), from Latin fēria + sexta, literally “sixth weekday”. displaced earlier vernes. Compare Galician sexta feira (“Friday”), Mirandese sesta-feira (“Friday”), Asturian estaferia and Spanish sextaferia. See: Galician Nouns 'sexta feira', Asturian Nouns 'estaferia', Spanish Nouns 'sextaferia'.

Verbs referencing "sexta-feira"

Asturian Nouns sestaferia, Spanish Nouns sextaferia.

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