Noun: enguia
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | enguia |
| Plural f | enguias |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like enguia
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂engʷʰ-der.
3. ▲
4. Latin anguisinflu.
5. Latin anguīlla
6. Old Galician-Portuguese anguia
7. Portuguese enguia
8. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese anguia, Latin anguīllam, presumably in a form *anguīlam, to account for the elision of the /l/. Cognate with Spanish anguila. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
anguia', Old Portuguese Nouns '
anguia', Latin Nouns '
anguīlla', Spanish Nouns '
anguila'.
Verbs referencing "enguia"
Galician Nouns
anguía.
Translations