Noun: testa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | testa |
| Plural f | testas |
Sample Sentences
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1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 133 (He had a palmspan and a half in his face, and in the beard a palmspan, and half one in the nose; and in the front he had one palmspan and a little more)
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1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de Notas de Álvaro Afonso, doc. 90 (one of that horses was really dark, with a signal in his forehead, and the other was tawny with a spot in his forehead)
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Dubido do que farei / Para saír desta enfeita / Maxino roer as uñas / E bourar mui ben na testa (I'm dubious on what to do / To exit of this preparation / I imagine gnawing my nails / And ably beating my head) [1697, several authors, Fiestas Minervales, Santiago: Antonio Frayz, page 34:]
Nouns inflected like testa
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 Old Galician-Portuguese testa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin testa (“earthen pot”). See: Latin Nouns '
testa'.
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