Masculine
povo
Meaning
- (masculine) people
- (masculine) hamlet (a small village or a group of houses)
- (Brazil,masculine) mob
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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.
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