Feminine
pluma
- (feminine) feather
- (feminine) quill, quill pen
- (feminine) pen, fountain pen
- (Mexico, US, feminine) ballpoint pen
- (feminine, figuratively) writer, penman
- (Spain, feminine, slang) effeminacy
Frequency
Hyphenated as
plu‧ma
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpluma/
Etymology
In summary
From Latin plūma (“feather”), taken as an early semi-learned term (Latin pl- normally becomes ll- in inherited Spanish), or it may have maintained a conservative pronunciation as it would have been in use by mainly the upper class. A popular evolution of the word may have once existed in pre-literary Spanish, as evidenced by the Old Spanish derivative llumazo (compare Portuguese chumaço; see also Spanish chumacera, borrowed from a related Portuguese term). Cognate to English plume.
Related words
quill pen
Texta
pluma fuente
puntabola
lápiz pasta
OS de la pluma
ala de ave o insecto
esferógrafo
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