Noun: formiga
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | formiga |
| Plural f | formigas |
Sample Sentences
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Unha formiguiña senlleira e angueirosa, bulindo por antre a herbaxe ollóu, sen facer bruído ningún, como xacía Rasgulkje impotente (A solitary and hard-working little ant, cruising by the grasses, saw, making no sound, how Rasgulkje laid helpless) [1958, Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, Percival e outras historias:]
Nouns inflected like formiga
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese formiga, from Latin formīca, from Proto-Italic *mormīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *morwís.
2. Compare Portuguese formiga and Spanish hormiga, See: Portuguese Nouns '
formiga', Spanish Nouns '
hormiga'.
Verbs referencing "formiga"
Portuguese Nouns
formiga.
Translations