Noun: golondrina
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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DEl dizenoueno grado del ſigno de gemini, es la piedra de la golondrina. Et es una delas preciadas piedras que a entre todas aq̃llas que se fazen en los animales. Et qui la quiſiere fallar, deue tomar el primero pollo que faze la golondrina en el anno. […] (Of the nineteenth degree of the sign of Gemini is the stone of the swallow. And it is one of the most valued of the stones that form within animals. And he who wishes to find it must take the first chick born to a swallow during the year. […]) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 26v:]
Nouns inflected like golondrina
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
From a metathetic alteration of Latin hirundinem, accusative of hirundō, with addition of the diminutive suffix -ina.
Verbs referencing "golondrina"
Spanish Nouns
golondrina.
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