Noun: pau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pau |
| Plural m | paus |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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[Et] poserõ perlos muros beesteyros et arque[yro]s muytos et outros, pera deytar quantos et paos agudos metudos en ferros, en guisa que os que se quisesem chegar ao muro nõ podesem escapar de morte (And they arranged many crossbowmen and bowmen on the walls, to throw stones and sharp sticks inserted in irons, so as the ones who wanted to came near the wall could not escape the death) [1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 605:]
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Tres ballestas: J de aseyro, IJ de pao (Three crossbows: one of steel, two of wood) [1457, F. R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos. Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega (Ponencia de Lingua), page 171:]
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Santo San Bras de Viana feito de pau de amieiro (Saint Saint [sic] Blaise of Viana, carved in alder wood) [1700, Domingo Blanco, editor, A Poesía popular en Galicia, Vigo: Serais, page 124:]
Nouns inflected like pau
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese pao, from Latin pālus (“stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ- (“attach”). Compare Portuguese pau and Spanish palo. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
pao', Latin Nouns '
pālus', Portuguese Nouns '
pau', Spanish Nouns '
palo'.
Verbs referencing "pau"
Portuguese Nouns
pau.
Translations