Noun: trouxa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | trouxa |
| Plural f | trouxas |
Sample Sentences
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¡Fillo da ialma! Vé-lo aí vai, coa súa trouxa ó lombo, descalzo de pé e perna, sin unha mala vergasta con que desviá-los cans que lle poidan saír a ladrar o camiño. (Poor son! There you have him, with his bundle on his shoulder, bare on feet and legs, with not a bad rod to divert the dogs that could come to bark on his way) [1920, Rogelio Rivero, Cóchegas, page 8:]
Nouns inflected like trouxa
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
Perhaps from Old French trousse (“pack”) or either directly from a local derivative of Vulgar Latin *torsāre, from *torsus, variant of Classical Latin tortus, past participle of torqueō. Cognate with Portuguese trouxa, Spanish troja, French trousse. See: Latin Nouns '
tortus', Portuguese Nouns '
trouxa', Spanish Nouns '
troja', French Nouns '
trousse'.
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