pluma

Meaning

1. (feminine) feather
2. (feminine) quill, quill pen
3. (feminine) pen, fountain pen
4. (Mexico,US,feminine) ballpoint pen
5. (feminine,figuratively) writer, penman
6. (Spain,feminine,slang) effeminacy

Hyphenated as

plu‧ma

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpluma/

Etymology

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.