colher

Inherited from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”).

• IPA^(key): /ko.ˈʎeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ

colher

1. to collect, to gather
2. to pick up, to harvest

• Galician: coller
• Portuguese: colher

• Universo Cantigas - "colher"

colher

From Old Galician-Portuguese cullar, collar, from Latin cochleārem (“spoon”). The Old Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Galician culler, French cuillère, Spanish cuchara, Catalan cullera. Compare with caracol (“snail”).

• Hyphenation: co‧lher

colher f (plural colheres)

1. spoon (eating utensil)

• Kabuverdianu: kudjer

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese colher, from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”). Compare also the borrowed doublets coligir and coligar. Cognate with Galician coller, Asturian coyer, and Spanish coger.

• Hyphenation: co‧lher

colher (first-person singular present colho, first-person singular preterite colhi, past participle colhido)

1. to harvest, get, reap, gather