Noun: lava
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lava
groepsimmuniteit,
wintergroen,
nixtamalisatie,
homocultuur,
onbesprokenheid,
sesaté,
sepsis,
sterfelijkheid,
seleen,
stoomkracht,
beeldhouwkunst,
clitoridectomie,
kontlikkerij,
concurrentie,
sardis,
satijn,
militaria,
santen,
staatsterreur,
classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian lava, from Neapolitan and Sicilian lava (“lava; downpour overflowing the streets”), likely from Latin lābēs (“a fall; a collapse; subsidence”). See: Italian Nouns '
lava', Latin Nouns '
lābēs'.
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