Noun: pega
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pega |
| Plural f | pegas |
Sample Sentences
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1418, Á. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 95 (Item, thrushes and blackbirds each one a crown. Item woodpeckers and magpies and snipes, four crowns each one)
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Cregos, frades, pegas e choyas, do a demo tas quatro joyas (proverb) (Priests, friars, magpies and choughs, I give to the devil these four jewels) [1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:]
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Dempois vin dúas lavandeiras que depenicaban unha espiga de trigo na leira de Xan de Pedreira, unha pomba que voaba pró souto de Fonte Boa, unha péga que fuxía de un lagarteiro, catro corvos que espaturraban un canciño morto na carballeira, un melro que asubiaba entre as follas dun cereixo, un carpinteiro que facía o burato pró seu niño; e unha laverca que rebulía no aire, con unha miñoquiña no pico. (After this I saw two wagtails which were pecking a wheat spike at the field of Xan de Pedreira, a dove flying to the wood of Fonte Boa, a magpie fleeing from a kestrel, four ravens which were clawing at a dead pup at the oak grove, a blackbird whistling in the leaves of a cherry tree, a woodpecker making the hole of its nest; and a lark fluttering in the air with a little earthworm in its beak.) [1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:]
Nouns inflected like pega
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
First attested in 1418. From Vulgar Latin peca, from Latin pīca (“magpie”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”). See: Latin Nouns '
pīca'.
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