mamífero
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Galician
Noun
mamífero m (plural mamíferos)
Portuguese
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin mammiferum, from mamma (“teat”) + ferō (“to bear”). By surface analysis, mamar (“to suckle”) + -ífero.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ifeɾu
- Hyphenation: ma‧mí‧fe‧ro
Adjective
mamífero (feminine mamífera, masculine plural mamíferos, feminine plural mamíferas)
Noun
mamífero m (plural mamíferos, feminine mamífera, feminine plural mamíferas)
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin mammifer: mamma (“teat”) + fero (“to bear”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mamífero (feminine mamífera, masculine plural mamíferos, feminine plural mamíferas)
Noun
mamífero m (plural mamíferos)
Further reading
- “mamífero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28