Noun: boa
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Genitive
| Singular | boae |
| Plural | boārum |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like boa
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First mentioned by Pliny. From Proto-Italic *gʷouā (with the b- due to a Sabellic intermediary), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷówyeh₂, a derivative of *gʷówyos (“pertaining to cows”). The semantic derivation stems from folk beliefs that snakes could drink cow milk; such folklore also underlies Serbo-Croatian guja and kravosas, the former being an exact cognate to the Latin word.
Verbs referencing "boa"
English Nouns
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boa, Finnish Nouns
boa, French Nouns
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boa, Italian Nouns
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boa, German Nouns
Boa.
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