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o cotovelo
elbow
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How do you say cotovelo in Portuguese?
How do you pronounce cotovelo in Portuguese?
cotovelo is pronounced /u kotoˈvɛlu/ in Portuguese.
Example sentences
O cotovelo direito do jogador foi ferido durante o jogo.
The player's right elbow was injured during the game.
Meu cotovelo está inchado e dolorido após a queda.
My elbow is swollen and painful after the fall.
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Why is it masculine?
Cotovelo descends from Latin "cubitus" (elbow), which was masculine, and Portuguese retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes (cubitus > cotovelo). Like most Portuguese nouns ending in -o, it follows the standard masculine gender pattern inherited from Latin masculine second-declension nouns.
What is the Portuguese word for elbow?
The Portuguese word for elbow is o cotovelo — masculine.
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