cossaco
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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French cosaque, from Polish Kozak. Doublet of cazaque.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aku
- Hyphenation: cos‧sa‧co
Adjective
cossaco (feminine cossaca, masculine plural cossacos, feminine plural cossacas)
- (relational) Cossack (relating to the Cossacks, warlike peoples of Ukraine and the banks of the Don, who enjoyed a certain administrative autonomy, or to their descendants)
Noun
cossaco m (plural cossacos)
- Cossack (member of the tsarist army recruited in certain regions of Southwestern Russia)
- Cossack (individual of the Cossacks or their descendant)
Further reading
- “cossaco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “cossaco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024