longas

Longas is the feminine plural form of the Portuguese adjective longo, meaning "long." It functions to describe feminine plural nouns and agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies. Along with longo, longo has a masculine form, while longas matches feminine plural nouns (with the corresponding forms longos for masculine plural and longa for feminine singular).

Etymology and related forms: longo derives from Latin longus, a common Romance-language root for “long.” In Portuguese, the full set of related forms includes longo (masculine singular), longa (feminine singular), longos (masculine plural), and longas (feminine plural). The feminine plural longas appears in phrases such as “pernas longas” (long legs) or “noites longas” (long nights).

Usage and placement: Portuguese adjectives usually follow the noun they describe, so longas typically appear after the noun, as in “viagens longas” or “dias longos” (the latter uses a masculine plural form for the adjective). Adjectives can occasionally precede the noun for emphasis or stylistic effect, but longas most often follows the noun in natural phrasing.

See also: longo (masculine singular form), longa (feminine singular form), longos (masculine plural), longas (feminine plural). Related discussion may cover how Portuguese adjectives in -o/-a endings inflect for gender and number, and how similar patterns appear in other Romance languages.

Notes: Longas is a standard inflected form within Portuguese grammar and does not describe a separate, independent concept outside its role as an adjective.