Noun: mellora
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | mellora |
| Plural f | melloras |
Sample Sentences
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mando a o dito meu fillo andreu em rraçon do terço et por rraçon de melloria sobre los outros seus yrmaos et yrmaas a mia casa forte de Cira et as armas et bastimento que y esteuer a tempo de meu finamento (I bequeath the aforementioned Andreu, my son, because of the third and of the improvement over his brothers and sisters, my stronghold of Cira, with all the weapons and supplies that happen to be there at the time of my death) [1368, A. López Ferreiro, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 348:]
Nouns inflected like mellora
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
14th century. Back-formation from mellorar. Compare Portuguese melhora and Spanish mejora. See: Portuguese Nouns '
melhora', Spanish Nouns '
mejora'.
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