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gema

(Anglès)

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

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ge‧ma
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈxema/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

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).

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