widow

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
2. A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
3. (informal) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
4. An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
5. A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
6. A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus.

Verb

1. To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. To strip of anything valued.
3. (obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (obsolete) To be widow to.

sinonimi

widower

dowager

widow woman

single

spinster

widowed

widowhood

relict

orphan

make

matron

only

render

separated

alone

surviving wife

survivors

unmarried

widow bird

bachelor

bereave

unmarried man

widowman

whidah

whydah

bereaved person

become widowed

dame

champagne

🍾

divorced person

grass widow

lay

Con il trattino come

wid‧ow

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈwɪd.əʊ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: widwe

Ereditato da inglese antico: widuwe

Affine inglese antico: widu

Affine tedesco: Witwe

Affine olandese: weduwe

Affine gotico: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉

Affine irlandese antico: fedb

Affine latino: vidua

Affine slavo ecclesiastico: въдова

Affine sanscrito: विधवा

Affine persiano: بیوه

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

Frasi

His widow , Sahana Pradhan , took over the leadership of the party .

La sua vedova, Sahana Pradhan, ha assunto la guida del partito.

He is survived by his widow , Lady Skeet , who resides in Milton Ernest , Bedfordshire .

È sopravvissuto dalla sua vedova, Lady Skeet, che risiede a Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire.