Noun: presa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | presa |
| Plural f | presas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like presa
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
Feminine of preso (“imprisoned; captured; bound; prisoner”), from Old Galician-Portuguese preso, from Latin prehēnsus (“seized”), perfect passive participle of prehendō (“to seize; to catch”). See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
preso', Latin Nouns '
prehēnsus'.
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