Noun: ovella
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | ovella |
| Plural f | ovelles |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like ovella
taquicàrdia,
indumentària,
histerectomia,
secada,
seguda,
segura,
segada,
segona,
sedera,
sembra,
savina,
safata,
sageta,
sagita,
sagnia,
sabata,
sabana,
sacada,
sambra,
sanefa, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan oveylla, from Latin ovicula, diminutive of ovis, from Proto-Italic *owis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis. Compare Occitan oelha. The initial diphthong in numerous regional variants reflects contamination from preceding determiners with final /-a/, as in una ovella > un' auvella. See: Latin Nouns '
ovicula'.
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