Noun: espada
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | espada |
| Plural f | espadas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like espada
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
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espada, through prothesis from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
espada', Old Portuguese Nouns '
espada', Latin Nouns '
spatha', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σπάθη'.
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