povo

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Meaning

  1. (masculine) people
  2. (masculine) hamlet (a small village or a group of houses)
  3. (Brazil,masculine) mob

Frequency

A2
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpo.vu/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), maybe from Etruscan. Cognate with Galician pobo.

Cognate with Galician
Galician
pobo
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