línea – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of línea

Noun: línea
Gender: f Hyphenation: lí‧ne‧a
Singular flínea
Plural flíneas

Sample Sentences

  • línea dura (hard or strict government policy)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Compare the inherited Old Spanish form liña, still used in archaic modern Spanish. Cognate with Portuguese linha, Galician liña, and Catalan línia and llinya. See: Latin Nouns 'līnea', Portuguese Nouns 'linha', Galician Nouns 'liña', Catalan Nouns 'línia'.

Verbs referencing "línea"

Portuguese Nouns linha, English Nouns linea, Catalan Nouns línia, Catalan Nouns llinya.

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