Femenino

soif

Oraciones
Significado (Inglés)

  1. (feminine) thirst
  2. (feminine, figuratively) thirst, desire

Frecuencia

B2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/swaf/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

Inherited from Old French soif, from earlier seif, seit, from Latin sitis. The unetymological -f seems to have been inserted, following cases such as Old French noif (“snow”), possibly to avoid homophony with soit (“[may] it be”) and soi (“-self”).

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