Noun: margherita
Gender: f
Hyphenation: mar‧ghe‧rì‧ta
| Singular f | margherita |
| Plural f | margherite |
Sample Sentences
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[...] e la maggiore e la più luculenta ¶ di quelle margherite innanzi fessi, ¶ per far di sé la mia voglia contenta. (… and now the largest and most luculent ¶ among those pearls came forward, that it might ¶ make my desire concerning it content.) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXII, p. 401, vv. 28-30:]
Nouns inflected like margherita
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From earlier margarita, from Latin margarīta, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), from a loanword of Eastern origin. See: Latin Nouns '
margarīta', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μαργαρίτης'.
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