espádua – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: espádua
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	espádua
Plural f	espáduas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like espádua

palestra, indumentária, metafísica, histerectomia, cumplicidade, serifa, sestra, secura, semana, estrebaria, estreiteza, savana, saroba, sapata, safena, safira, militança, sacada, sacola, sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin spatula (“broad, flat piece”), diminutive of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”). Compare the inherited doublet espalda, and later borrowing espátula. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'σπάθη'.

Verbs referencing "espádua"

Spanish Nouns espalda, Galician Nouns espádoa.

Translations