Noun: espalda
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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[…] la uertud de figura de mugier con alas que eſte leuantada en pie. ⁊ con los cabellos luengos echados atras. ⁊ eſparzidos ſobre las eſpaldas. ([…] the virtue of the figure of the winged woman who is standing on one foot, her hair long and drawn back, and spread over her back.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 106r:]
Nouns inflected like espalda
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From metathesis of Vulgar Latin *spatla(m), from Late Latin spatulam, accusative of spatula (“broad, flat piece”), from classical Latin spatha. See: Latin Nouns '
spatha'.
Verbs referencing "espalda"
Spanish Nouns
espalda.
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