🇵🇹 Portuguese

cotovelos

masculine

os cotovelos

elbows

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cotovelos
/us kotoˈvɛlus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cotovelos in Portuguese?

IPA
/us kotoˈvɛlus/

How do you pronounce cotovelos in Portuguese?

cotovelos is pronounced /us kotoˈvɛlus/ 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?

Cotovelos 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 elbows?

The Portuguese word for elbows is os cotovelos — masculine.

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