torpedo – Dutch noun declension

Noun: torpedo
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Hyphenation:

Sg.	torpedo
Pl.	torpedo's

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like torpedo

safari, samosa, salami, sialia, sherry, sherpa, skorro, vluchtauto, actiefoto, pachinko, blauwgrijze ara, commando, babiroesa, begonia, beloega, hotellobby, basisgrammatica, roodwangara, retorica, yogini, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish”), from torpēdō (“numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“to be stiff, numb, torpid; to be astounded; to be inactive”) and -dō (“noun suffix”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”), see also Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti). See: Latin Nouns 'torpēdō'.

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