espía

(Inglese)

espiar

to spy, to spy on (act as a spy)

Frequenza

B2
Con il trattino come
es‧pí‧a
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/esˈpia/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

From Old Spanish espia, from Gothic *𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰 (*spaiha), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”) (compare Anglo-Norman espie, French espion, Italian spia, English spy, German spähen (“to peek, spy”) and Latin speciō (“to look, watch”)).

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