Noun: xesta
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | xesta |
| Plural f | xestas |
Sample Sentences
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que façades a dicta metade da dicta casa de pedra e de madeyra e de giestas e de colmo (you should build that half house with stone and wood and brooms and thatch) [1408, José Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 318:]
Nouns inflected like xesta
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 gẽesta, from Latin genesta (“broom”). Cognate with Portuguese gesta and Spanish hiniesta. See: Latin Nouns '
genesta', Portuguese Nouns '
gesta', Spanish Nouns '
hiniesta'.
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