Noun: covardía
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | covardía |
| Plural f | covardías |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like covardía
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 covardia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from covarda, from Old French coart, cuard, from coe (“tail”) + -ard (“pejorative agent noun”); coe is in turn from Latin cauda. The reference seems to be to an animal “turning tail”, or having its tail between its legs, especially a dog. See: Latin Nouns '
cauda'.
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