colher

Senso

Noun

spoon (eating utensil)

Verb

to harvest, get, reap, gather

Con trattino come

co‧lher

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/koˈʎɛʁ/

Etimologia

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”).

Frasi

Melhor sem colher do que sem sopa .

Meglio senza cucchiaio che senza zuppa.