Noun: espiga
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | espiga |
| Plural f | espigas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like espiga
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese espiga, from Latin spīca (“spike”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp, sharp stick”). Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan espiga, Occitan espic, French épi, Italian spiga and Romanian spic. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
espiga', Latin Nouns '
spīca', French Nouns '
épi', Italian Nouns '
spiga', Romanian Nouns '
spic'.
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