Noun: espada
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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Myo çid Ruy diaz el que en buẽ ora çinxo eſpada
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My Cid, Ruy Díaz, who at a good time he girded himself with a sword (common epithet of the Cid) [between 1140 and 1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid 58]
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De natura es fria & humida / Et fazen della mangos pora cuchiello & pora eſpadas (It is cold and damp in nature, and they make handles for knives and swords out of it) [ca. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario f. 64r.]
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la uertud dela figura de om̃e cauallero ſobre un leon, & que tenga en la mano dieſtra eſpada deſnuda, & en la ſinieſtra cabeça de om̃e (the virtue of the figure of a knightly man riding a lion, with an unsheathed sword at his right hand and the head of a man at his left hand) [ca. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario f. 103v.]
Nouns inflected like espada
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)peh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
5. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰh₁-éh₂?
7. Proto-Hellenic *spátʰā
8. Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē)bor.
9. Latin spatha
10. Old Spanish espada
11. Inherited from Latin spatham, accusative of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
σπάθη'.
Verbs referencing "espada"
Spanish Nouns
espada.
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