gorilă

See also: gorila and Gorilă

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French gorille, from New Latin gorilla, from Ancient Greek Γόριλλαι (Górillai, “a tribe of hairy women”), described by Hanno the Navigator, a Carthaginian navigator and possible visitor to the area that later became Sierra Leone.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡoˈri.lə/

Noun

gorilă f (plural gorile)

  1. gorilla (ape)

Declension

Declension of gorilă
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative gorilă gorila gorile gorilele
genitive-dative gorile gorilei gorile gorilelor
vocative gorilă, gorilo gorilelor

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