Noun: manzana
Gender: f
Hyphenation: man‧za‧na
| Singular f | manzana |
| Plural f | manzanas |
Sample Sentences
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dar la vuelta a la manzana (to go around the block)
Nouns inflected like manzana
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
From earlier mazana, from Vulgar Latin *mattiāna, ellipsis of māla mattiāna, plural of Latin mālum mattiānum (literally “apple of Matius”), referring to a kind of apple. Gaius Matius, a friend of Julius Caesar and Cicero, was a Roman horticulturist and author of cookbooks. Cognate with Portuguese maçã, dialectal Catalan maçana. See: Latin Nouns '
mālum mattiānum', Portuguese Nouns '
maçã', Catalan Nouns '
maçana'.
Verbs referencing "manzana"
Portuguese Nouns
maçã.
Translations