Noun: lava
Gender: f
Hyphenation: la‧va
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lava
coilocitosis,
metafísica,
síndrome del intestino irritable,
harina de maíz,
gran vida,
tierra firme,
serina,
expresividad,
metrosexualidad,
flores blancas,
sedosidad,
sapera,
difteria,
lengua de signos española,
seguridad ciudadana,
combustibilidad,
inflexibilidad,
risografía,
Paynemanía,
paraproteinemia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian lava, from Neapolitan and Sicilian lava (“lava; downpour overflowing the streets”), likely from Latin lābēs (“a fall; a collapse; subsidence”), from lābī (“to fall; to slip”); compare lābīna (“landslide”). See: Italian Nouns '
lava', Latin Nouns '
lābēs'.
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