Vroulik

espádua

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (feminine) scapula; shoulder blade
  2. (feminine) shoulder

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/isˈpa.du.ɐ/
Etimologie (Engels)

In summary

Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin spatula (“broad, flat piece”), diminutive of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “any broad blade, of wood or metal”). Compare the inherited doublet espalda, and later borrowing espátula.

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