Feminine
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gema

Meaning

  1. (feminine) gem
  2. (feminine) bud, shoot

Frequency

23k
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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