Noun: seiva
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | seiva |
| Plural f | seivas |
Sample Sentences
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o que mays forte he de todos estos he o poo do rrosalgar amasado con seiua d'ome (the strongest of them all is realgar power mixed with human saliva) [1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 143:]
Nouns inflected like seiva
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
Inherited from Latin saliva. Displaced by saíva and the borrowed saliva, probably because of seiva (“sap”). For another possibly inherited example, see Italian scialiva. See: Latin Nouns '
saliva', Latin Nouns '
saliva', Italian Nouns '
scialiva'.
Verbs referencing "seiva"
Spanish Nouns
savia.
Translations