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portocal
orange tree /por.toˈkal/
noun#4857 most common
Example sentences
Portocalul are flori albe.
The orange tree has white flowers.
Vecinul meu are un portocal în curte.
My neighbor has an orange tree in the yard.
Portocalul înflorește primăvara și face fructe toamna.
The orange tree blooms in spring and bears fruit in autumn.
Am plantat doi portocali lângă gard anul trecut.
I planted two orange trees next to the fence last year.
Portocalii din sera bunicii mele rezistă la frig doar dacă sunt protejați.
The orange trees in my grandmother's greenhouse survive the cold only if they are protected.
Dacă ai fi grefat portocalul mai devreme, ar fi rodit anul acesta.
If you had grafted the orange tree earlier, it would have borne fruit this year.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | portocalul | portocalii |
| Genitive | portocalului | portocalilor |
| Accusative | portocalul | portocalii |
| Vocative | portocalule | portocalilor |
Word family
portocalăorange (the fruit)
portocaliuorange-colored
portocalieorange-colored
livadă de portocaliorange grove
Etymology
Portocal is built on portocală, the Romanian word for the orange fruit, which entered the language through Greek portokali. That Greek word goes back to Venetian portogallo, meaning Portugal, because Portuguese traders were the ones who brought the sweet orange to the eastern Mediterranean in the 1500s. Romanian formed the tree name by shifting the fruit word into the masculine gender, a common pattern for fruit trees in the language.
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