Noun: cuba
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cuba |
| Plural f | cubas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cuba
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cuba, from Latin cūpa (“cask; vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“a hollow”). Doublet of copa and copo, which came through a Late Latin intermediary variant. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
cuba', Latin Nouns '
cūpa'.
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