Noun: lechuza
Gender: f
Hyphenation: le‧chu‧za
| Singular f | lechuza |
| Plural f | lechuzas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lechuza
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *nokʷt-ewder.
3. Proto-Italic *noktowe
4. Latin noctū
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
6. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
7. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
8. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
9. Proto-Indo-European *-os
10. Proto-Italic *-os
11. Old Latin -os
12. Latin -us
13. Latin *noctūus
14. Latin noctua
15. Old Spanish *nochua
16. Old Spanish *nochuza?
17. Old Spanish nechuza
18. ▲
19. Spanish lecheinflu.
20. Spanish lechuza
21. From Old Spanish nechuza, influenced by leche (“milk”) due to a popular belief that owls “breastfeed” human infants at night.
22. Coromines supposes that Old Spanish nechuza developed via vowel dissimilation from an older *nochuza, a derivative of an also-unattested *nochua (as gentuza < gente), and that inherited from Latin noctua (“owl”). See: Latin Nouns '
noctua'.
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