Noun: lava
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | lava |
| Plural f | lavas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lava
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
From Italian lava, from Neapolitan and Sicilian lava (“lava; downpour overflowing the streets”), likely from Latin lābēs (“a fall; a collapse; subsidence”), from lābī (“to fall; to slip”); compare lābīna (“landslide”). See: Italian Nouns '
lava', Latin Nouns '
lābēs'.
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