polvo

Borrowed from Italian polve, from Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Compare German Pulver (“powder”), French poudre (“powder”), English powder.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpolvo]
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• Rhymes: -olvo
• Hyphenation: pol‧vo

polvo (accusative singular polvon, plural polvoj, accusative plural polvojn)

1. dust

Borrowed from Esperanto polvo, Italian polvere, Spanish polvo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolvo/

polvo (plural polvi)

1. powder, dust

From Old Portuguese polbo, from Latin polypus (“octopus”), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous). Doublet of pólipo.

Cognate with Galician polbo, Spanish pulpo, Italian polpo, French poulpe, pieuvre.

• Hyphenation: pol‧vo

polvo m (plural polvos, metaphonic)

1. octopus

• pólipo

From Old Spanish polvos (singular),[1] from Vulgar Latin *pulvus, neuter form derived from Classical Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolbo/ [ˈpol.β̞o]

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• Rhymes: -olbo
• Syllabification: pol‧vo

polvo m (plural polvos)

1. dust (fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects)
2. powder, dust (fine particles of a dry substance)
3. (vulgar, colloquial) fuck, screw (sexual intercourse)

   Synonyms: (Spain) folleteo, (Latin America) cogida

   • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter XIV, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 220:

     ¿Dónde están Pedro y su cerda? ( ) Han salido al jardín, seguro. ( ) Ven, Roberto, que vamos a ver un polvo en primer plano.

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• “polvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014