Noun: pulga
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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los piojos las pulgas et las çismes et las formigas et sus semejantes (lice, fleas, bedbugs, ants, and the like) [ca. 1320, Juan Manuel, Libro del cavallero et del escudero:]
Nouns inflected like pulga
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pūlica, from Latin pūlex (“flea”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese pulga. See: Latin Nouns '
pūlex', Old Portuguese Nouns '
pulga'.
Verbs referencing "pulga"
Old Portuguese Nouns
pulga, Spanish Nouns
pulga.
Translations