Noun: spia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: spì‧a
| Singular f | spia |
| Plural f | spie |
Sample Sentences
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spia dell'olio (oil light)
Nouns inflected like spia
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
Borrowed from a Germanic language, perhaps Gothic *𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰 (*spaiha) or from a Frankish cognate, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”). Cognates include obsolete French épie (“spy”), Spanish espía (“spy”), English spy and German spähen (“to peek, to spy”). See: French Nouns '
épie', Spanish Nouns '
espía', English Nouns '
spy'.
Verbs referencing "spia"
English Nouns
espy, Galician Nouns
espía.
Translations