nobre
Galician
Related terms
- nobremente
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese nobre, from Latin nōbilis (“noble”), from nōscō (“I know; I recognise”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.bɾi/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.bɾe/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.βɾɨ/
- Hyphenation: no‧bre
Adjective
nobre m or f (plural nobres, comparable)
- noble (pertaining to nobility)
- Minha família tem sangue nobre.
- My family has noble blood.
- noble; honorable; virtuous (morally good)
- Aquela doação foi um ato bastante nobre.
- That donation was quite a noble act.
- high-end; high-quality; prized (having exceptionally high quality)
- (carpentry, of wood) dense and resistant
- Não tive dinheiro para construir a escadaria de madeira nobre, então usei pinho.
- I didn’t have money to build the staircase with prized wood, so I used pine.
- (cooking, of fish) having few or no bones in its meat
- O atum é um peixe nobre.
- Tuna is a boneless fish.
- (carpentry, of wood) dense and resistant
Synonyms
Derived terms
- bairro nobre
- causa nobre
- zona nobre
Synonyms
- (noble; aristocrat): aristocrata, fidalgo
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.