polvo

From Spanish polvo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolvo/

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• Hyphenation: pol‧vo

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

1. dust

• polva
• polvi
• polvoŝtormo

From Esperanto polvo.

polvo (plural polvi)

1. powder, dust

• polvoza (“dusty”)
• senpolvigar (“to 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.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpow.vu/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpoɫ.vu/
• Hyphenation: pol‧vo

polvo m (plural polvos)

1. octopus

• pólipo

From Vulgar Latin *pulvus, from Classical Latin pulvis, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpol.bo/, [ˈpol.βo]

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)
4. (plural only) see polvos

• despolvar
• empolvar
• tormenta de polvo
• polvazo
• echar un polvo
• polvoroso
• polvoriento
• polvorón
• pólvora

• polvareda
• pólvora
• polvera