Noun: comadreja
Gender: f
Hyphenation: co‧ma‧dre‧ja
| Singular f | comadreja |
| Plural f | comadrejas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like comadreja
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 comadre (“midwife; godmother”) + -eja (diminutive suffix), said to be after its sinuous and nimble (and therefore “feminine”) figure. Compare equivalents in other Romance languages (Italian donnola, Portuguese doninha, Galician doniña, Romanian nevăstuică) but not only (Greek νυφίτσα (nyfítsa), Danish brud, Arabic اِبْن عِرْس (ibn ʕirs)). See: Italian Nouns '
donnola', Portuguese Nouns '
doninha', Galician Nouns '
doniña', Romanian Nouns '
nevăstuică', Greek Nouns '
νυφίτσα', Danish Nouns '
brud'.
Verbs referencing "comadreja"
Greek Nouns
νυφίτσα.
Translations