andorinha
Appearance
See also: Andorinha
Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese andorinna (“swallow”), from a Vulgar Latin root *harundīna, from Latin hirundō, hirundinem; cf. also harundō, which may have influenced it.
Cognate with Galician andoriña, Mirandese andorina, Leonese andolina and Asturian andarina.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: an‧do‧ri‧nha
Noun
[edit]andorinha f (plural andorinhas)
- bird of the family Hirundinidae (swallows, martins and saw-wings)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Nheengatu: andurinhu
Further reading
[edit]- “andorinha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “andorinha”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026
- “andorinha”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
- “andorinha”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “andorinha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
- “andorinha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Swallows
