Noun: femea
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | femea |
| Plural f | femeas |
Nouns inflected like femea
azỹeira,
alfarroba,
ymagen,
ygreja,
milgrãada,
berbeleta,
barriga,
estrolomia,
cavalaria,
paravra,
paravoa,
paravla,
palavra,
purgaminho,
bẽeyçõn,
bẽeiçon,
galinha,
galinna,
demanda,
saudade, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Latin fēmina (“woman, wife, female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).
2. Cognate with Old Spanish femna. See: Latin Nouns '
fēmina', Latin Nouns '
fēmina', Old Spanish Nouns '
femna'.
Verbs referencing "femea"
Portuguese Nouns
fêmea.
Translations