Noun: fêmea
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | fêmea |
| Plural f | fêmeas |
Nouns inflected like fêmea
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
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese femea, femẽa (“female”), from Latin fēmina (“woman, wife, female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).
2. Cognate with Galician femia, Spanish hembra, Occitan femna, French femme, Italian femmina and Romanian famen. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
femea', Latin Nouns '
fēmina', Galician Nouns '
femia', Spanish Nouns '
hembra', French Nouns '
femme', Italian Nouns '
femmina', Romanian Nouns '
famen'.
Verbs referencing "fêmea"
Galician Nouns
femia.
Translations