Noun: cuba
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cuba |
| Plural f | cubas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cuba
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
From Old Galician-Portuguese cuba (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cūpa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa and copo, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
cuba', Latin Nouns '
cūpa'.
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