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 Galician-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

Inherited 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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4. (plural only) see polvos

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