Feminine
Concepts
Synonyms
animales hembra
plantas hembra
animal del sexo femenino
para los brutos
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
hem‧bra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈembɾa/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish femna, fembra, from Latin fēmina (“female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Doublet of fémina.
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