boa – English noun declension

English noun forms of boa

Noun: boa
Singularboa
Pluralboas

Sample Sentences

  • Do not take up your boa as if it were the rope with which you meant to hang yourself; nor wrap your shawl round you as if it were your shroud. [1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 220:]

Nouns inflected like boa

boa, paranoia, area, idea,

Etymology

From Middle English boa, from Latin boa (“large snake”), a species of serpent mentioned in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History). The scarf was named attributively, for its resemblance to the snake when worn. See: Latin Nouns 'boa'.

Verbs referencing "boa"

Greek Nouns βόας.