Feminine

cueva

Sentences
Meaning

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

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
cue‧va
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkweba/
Etymology

In summary

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.

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