Noun: machado
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | machado |
| Plural m | machados |
Sample Sentences
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Un carpinteiro que estaba por riba do carballo deixoulle caer o machado e cortoulle o rabo e o lobo marchou máis enfadado. (A carpenter riding his horse let his axe fall, cutting the wolf's tail off and it left even angier.) [2006, “O lobo sen rabo [The tailless wolf]”, in Henrique Harguindey, Maruxa Barrio, compilers, Antoloxía do conto popular galego [Antology of popular Galician tales], 6th edition, Vigo: Editorial Galaxia, →ISBN, page 66:]
Nouns inflected like machado
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese machado, perhaps from Latin marculus (“hammer”). Compare sacho. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
machado', Old Portuguese Nouns '
machado', Latin Nouns '
marculus'.
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