colher

Significado

Noun

spoon (eating utensil)

Verb

to harvest, get, reap, gather

Guionizado como

co‧lher

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/koˈʎɛʁ/

Etimoloxía

From Old Galician-Portuguese cullar, collar, from Latin cochleārem (“spoon”). The Old Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Galician culler, French cuillère, Spanish cuchara, Catalan cullera. Compare with caracol (“snail”).

Oracións

Melhor sem colher do que sem sopa .

Better without a spoon than without soup.