Noun: devesa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | devesa |
| Plural f | devesas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like devesa
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese devesa, from Late Latin [terra] dēfēnsa (“defended land”).
2. Cognate with Galician devesa and Spanish dehesa. Doublet of defesa and defensa. See: Galician Nouns '
devesa', Spanish Nouns '
dehesa'.
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