Noun: avespa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | avespa |
| Plural f | avespas |
Sample Sentences
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cõmo as [avellas], as vespas, as moscas, os vermẽes et as outras cousas taes cõmo estas, quese nõ entende que as Deus mãdase a Noe meter ẽna arca, nẽ el nõ as meteo em ella (as the bees, the wasps, the flies, the worms and the other things such as these, which one cannot understand how God would have ordered Noah to put in the ark, nor did he put them in it) [c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 39:]
Nouns inflected like avespa
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since circa 1300 (vespas). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin vespa. Probably influenced by abella (“bee”). Cognate with Portuguese vespa and Spanish avispa. See: Latin Nouns '
vespa', Portuguese Nouns '
vespa', Spanish Nouns '
avispa'.
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