Noun: oreja
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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Los animales de grandes orejas, ò de agudo oydo, ſiruen contra el mal de los oydos, como las Liebres. (Animals with great ears, or with great hearing, such as hares, withstand harm to the ears.) [1443, Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Cvruiosa y Ocvlta Filosofia. Primera, y Segvnda Parte de las marauillas de las naturaleza, examinadas en varias queſtiones naturales., page 367:]
Nouns inflected like oreja
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
Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula. Compare Old Galician-Portuguese orelha. See: Latin Nouns '
ōricula', Latin Nouns '
ōricula', Old Portuguese Nouns '
orelha'.
Verbs referencing "oreja"
Spanish Nouns
oreja.
Translations