cueva

Signification

(feminine) cave
(feminine) basement, cellar
(Argentina,euphemistic,feminine) black-market bureau de change; a place to exchange pesos for dólares blue.

Fréquence

Coupé comme

cue‧va

Genre

♀️ Féminin

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈkweba/

Étymologie

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cova, from covus, alternative form of Latin cavus (or from a variant of Late Latin cava, from cavum, cavus), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos (“cavity”). Compare Portuguese cova. Not related to English cove, despite the similarity in meaning.