Noun: correa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | correa |
| Plural f | correas |
Sample Sentences
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tã grã fame era dentro na vila, que comiã os coyros et as correas (there was such big hunger inside the town that they were eating the leathers and straps) [1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 34:]
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As veces ruyn gadela roy boa correa (Sometimes a bad bitch gnaws a good leash) [1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes en Romance:]
Nouns inflected like correa
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese correa, from Latin corrigia. Compare Portuguese correia and Spanish correa. See: Latin Nouns '
corrigia', Portuguese Nouns '
correia', Spanish Nouns '
correa'.
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