Noun: espía
Gender: mf
f
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | espía |
| Singular f | espía |
| Plural m | espías |
| Plural f | espías |
Sample Sentences
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cando neste estado chegou unha espía nosa (que nunca parecera) decendo que viña Sul de Portugal con doce mil homes (when, in this stance, a spy of us arrived —didn't look as one— saying that Marshal General Soult was coming from Portugal with twelve thousand men) [1810, José Fernandez y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:]
Nouns inflected like espía
baloncestista,
somalí,
activista,
sevillista,
ordenanza,
paciente,
trompetista,
bengalí,
chantaxe,
chavista,
paracaidista,
ximnasta,
liberticida,
clarividente,
baldreu,
baldreo,
flagelante,
florista,
comandante,
xadrecista, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Gothic *𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰 (*spaiha), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”) (compare Anglo-Norman espie, French espion, Italian spia, , English spy, German spähen (“to peek, spy”) and Latin speciō (“to look, watch”)). See: French Nouns '
espion', Italian Nouns '
spia', English Nouns '
spy', Latin Nouns '
speciō'.
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