Noun: espinha
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | espinha |
| Plural f | espinhas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like espinha
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
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espinha, from Latin spīna (“thorn”), from Proto-Italic *speinā, from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp point”). Cognate with Galician espiña. The sense of "spine" or "thorn" was lost to espinho. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
espinha', Old Portuguese Nouns '
espinha', Latin Nouns '
spīna', Galician Nouns '
espiña'.
Verbs referencing "espinha"
Galician Nouns
espiña.
Translations