Feminine
Meaning
- (feminine) gem
- (feminine) bud, shoot
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ge‧ma
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈxema/
Etymology
In summary
Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud, precious stone, jewel”). Doublet of yema. According to Coromines and Pascual, a recent learned borrowing not registered even in the 18th-century first edition of the DRAE (Diccionario de Autoridades).
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