Feminine
espada
Meaning
- (feminine) sword
- (feminine) épée
- (feminine, form-of, singular) singular of espadas (“spades”) (one of the four suits of playing cards)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
es‧pa‧da
Pronounced as (IPA)
/isˈpa.dɐ/
Etymology
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese espada, through prothesis from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.
Related words
New
espadas
- (form-of, plural) plural of espada
- spades (one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠)
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