gema

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (feminine) gem
2. (feminine) bud, shoot

Koppelteken as

ge‧ma

Geslag

♀️ Vroulik

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈxema/

Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud, precious stone, jewel”). Doublet of yema. According to Coromines and Pascual, a recent learned borrowing not registered even in the 18th-century first edition of the DRAE (Diccionario de Autoridades).

Sinne

El niño confunde la gema con una medicina y se la traga .

The boy mistakes the gem for medicine and swallows it.