Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula; official name: Reino de Espanha; capital and largest city: Madrid)
  2. (archaic, feminine, plural-normally, poetic) Iberian Peninsula

Synonyms

Valencia

estado espanhol

reino de espanha

València

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/isˈpɐ̃.ɲɐ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Espanha (“Iberian Peninsula”), from Latin Hispānia, possibly derived from the Punic אי שפן (I-Shaphan, “coast of hyraxes”). Doublet of Hispânia, a borrowing.

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