arma de fogo
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Galician
Noun
arma de fogo f (plural armas de fogo)
- firearm
- Antonym: arma branca
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
arma de fogo f (plural armas de fogo)
- firearm
- Antonym: arma branca
- 1746, “Da Amputaçam ou Mutilaçam” (chapter XXXVII), in Jacob de Castro Sarmento, transl., Tratado das operaçoens de cirurgia, translation of A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery by Samuel Sharp, page 353:
- Muitas veſes ſuccede nos exercitos, que o braço recebeo huma ferida de arma de fogo junto da eſpadoa, e que a ferida requere o fazerſe a Amputaçam na meſma eſpadoa; mas o receyo e medo de que a hemorragia venha a cauſar a morte a o enfermo na Operaçam tem amedrentado e impedido os Cirurgioens de entreprendela.
- It happens many times in the armies of an arm being wounded by a firearm at the scapula, and that wound requires the amputation of said scapula; but the fear that the hemorrhage would cause the death of the patient has scared and prevented surgeons to undertake it.