madriguera – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of madriguera

Noun: madriguera
Gender: f Hyphenation: ma‧dri‧gue‧ra
Singular fmadriguera
Plural fmadrigueras

Sample Sentences

  • Embravecido, se asoma y como si fuera una jirafa, saca el cuello por la ventana para vociferar: “¡Putas, salid de vuestras madrigueras como conejas![…]” (Enraged, he leans out the window, sticking out his neck like a giraffe, yelling: "Whores! Come out of your burrows, you little bunny bitches! […] ”) [2022 October 9, Manuel Viejo, Elisa Silió, “El difícil camino para que no se repitan los gritos del Ahuja: “Sois unas pedazo de mierdas. ¡Putas!””, in El País:]

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin mātrīcāria (“related to the womb”), from Latin mātrīx (“womb”). The semantic development could mirror the one in cunīculus (“underground tunnel; rabbit”) if indeed related to cunnus (“vagina”). See: Latin Nouns 'mātrīx'.

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