Noun: anguia
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | anguia |
| Plural f | anguias |
Sample Sentences
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cada natal nos daredes das ditas erdades quinse duseas de boas anguias secas et salgadas (each Christmas you'll give us, of that properties, fifteen dozens of good eels, dry and salted) [1391, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, vol. 3, page 420]
Nouns inflected like anguia
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ-der.
3. ▲
4. Latin anguisinflu.
5. Latin anguīlla
6. Old Galician-Portuguese anguia
7. Inherited from Latin anguīlla. Cognate with Old Spanish anguila. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
anguila'.
Verbs referencing "anguia"
Portuguese Nouns
enguia, Galician Nouns
anguía.
Translations