🇵🇹 Portuguese

couro

masculine

o couro

leather

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couro
/u ˈkoɾu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say couro in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈkoɾu/

How do you pronounce couro in Portuguese?

couro is pronounced /u ˈkoɾu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O couro marrom foi tratado com um produto especial para mantê-lo macio e durável.

The brown leather was treated with a special product to keep it soft and durable.

Comprei um novo couro genuíno para fazer uma jaqueta, pois o couro sintético anterior não era resistente.

I bought new genuine leather to make a jacket, because the previous synthetic leather was not durable.

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Why is it masculine?

Couro is masculine because it derives from Latin "corium" (hide, leather), which was a neuter noun in Latin but followed the pattern of many Latin neuter words ending in -ium that became masculine in Portuguese by adopting the -o ending typical of masculine nouns.

What is the Portuguese word for leather?

The Portuguese word for leather is o couro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchcuirlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishcueroelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiancuoioilmasculine

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