polvo

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Esperanto

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian polve, from Latin pulvis (dust, powder). Compare German Pulver (powder), French poudre (powder), English powder.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -olvo
  • Hyphenation: pol‧vo

Noun

polvo (accusative singular polvon, plural polvoj, accusative plural polvojn)

  1. dust

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Galician

Noun

polvo m (plural polvos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of polbo

References

  • polvo” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto polvoItalian polvereSpanish polvo.

Pronunciation

Noun

polvo (plural polvi)

  1. powder, dust

Derived terms

Portuguese

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polvo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese polbo, from Latin polypus (octopus), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Doublet of pólipo.

Cognate with Galician polbo, Spanish pulpo, Italian polpo, French poulpe, pieuvre.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: pol‧vo

Noun

polvo m (plural polvos, metaphonic)

  1. octopus

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish polvos (singular),[1] from Vulgar Latin *pulvus, neuter form derived from Classical Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (flour, dust).

Pronunciation

Noun

polvo m (plural polvos)

  1. dust (fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects)
  2. powder, dust (fine particles of a dry substance)
  3. (vulgar, colloquial) fuck, screw (sexual intercourse)
    Synonyms: (Spain) folleteo, (Latin America) cogida
  4. (plural only) see polvos

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “polvo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 599

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