Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -umu
  • Hyphenation: pru‧mo

Etymology 1

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Semi-learned borrowing from Latin plumbum. Doublet of chumbo, which was inherited and underwent the regular sound change. Compare also Spanish plomo.

Noun

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prumo m (plural prumos)

  1. plummet (lead on a line used to check if something is perfectly vertical)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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prumo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of prumar