viúva

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) widow (a woman whose husband has died)
2. (feminine) fawn-breasted tanager (Pipraeidea melanonota, a passerine bird)
3. (feminine) white-headed marsh tyrant (Arundinicola leucocephala, a passerine bird)
4. (feminine) Parona leatherjacket (Parona signata, a fish)
5. (feminine) Amazon lily (Victoria amazonica, a water lily)

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of viuvar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of viuvar:

viuvar

alternative form of enviuvar

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Concepts

widow

widow woman

Synonyms

viúvo

viuvez

linha isolada

Translations

veuve

viuda

Witwe

vedova

weduwe

χήρα

vidua

ارملة

vídua

viuda

vidu

أرملة

veusa

védova

Pronounced as (IPA)

/viˈu.vɐ/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: vidua

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese viuva, from Vulgar Latin *viduva, from Classical Latin vidua (“widow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. Displaced Old Portuguese collateral form viuda, from the same Classical Latin word.