maltês
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- maltez (obsolete)
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Malta (“Malta”) + -ês (“-ese”).
Noun
maltês m (plural malteses, feminine maltesa, feminine plural maltesas)
- Maltese (inhabitant of Malta)
- (uncountable) Maltese (Semitic language of Malta)
- a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Synonyms
- (knight of the Order of Malta): hospitalário
Adjective
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- Maltese (of Malta)
- Maltese (of the Maltese language)
- (of a cat) whose fur is primarily blue or gray
- of or relating to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Synonyms
- (of the Order of Malta): hospitalário
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Malta (“group of itinerant workers or vagabonds”) + -ês (“-ese”), from Malta (“Malta”).
Noun
maltês m (plural malteses, feminine maltesa, feminine plural maltesas)
Synonyms
Related terms
Categories:
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ês
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- pt:Languages
- pt:Malta
- pt:Military
- pt:Nationalities
- pt:Occupations
- Portuguese terms with multiple etymologies