widow

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. A person whose spouse is absent:
2. (uncommon) A person whose spouse is absent:
3. (broadly, humorous, in-compounds, informal, often, sarcastic) A person whose spouse is absent:
4. An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
5. A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
6. Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To strip of anything valued.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To be widow to.

Conceitos

viúva

viúvo

viuvez

linha isolada

enviuvar

Oposto de

orphan

Sinônimos

widower

dowager

widow woman

single

spinster

widowed

widowhood

relict

orphan

make

matron

only

render

separated

alone

surviving wife

survivors

unmarried

widow bird

bachelor

bereave

unmarried man

widowman

whidah

whydah

bereaved person

become widowed

dame

champagne

🍾

divorced person

grass widow

lay

Traduções

veuve

Witwe

viuda

vedova

weduwe

χήρα

vidua

viudo

vedovo

vidu

Witwer

vídua

veuf

أرملة

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwɪd.əʊ/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: widwe

Herdado de inglês arcaico: widuwe

Cognato com inglês arcaico: widu

Cognato com alemão: Witwe

Cognato com holandês: weduwe

Cognato com gótico: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉

Cognato com irlandês arcaico: fedb

Cognato com latim: vidua

Cognato com eslavo eclesiástico: въдова

Cognato com sânscrito: विधवा

Cognato com persa: بیوه

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

Frases

His widow , Sahana Pradhan , took over the leadership of the party .

Sua viúva, Sahana Pradhan, assumiu a liderança do partido.

He is survived by his widow , Lady Skeet , who resides in Milton Ernest , Bedfordshire .

Ele deixa sua viúva, Lady Skeet, que reside em Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire.