Noun: riga
Gender: f
Hyphenation: rì‧ga
| Singular f | riga |
| Plural f | righe |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like riga
demoltiplica,
sariga,
scocca,
scolca,
transcaratteristica,
fotoelettrica,
ultracentrifuga,
stereomeccanica,
pulcesecca,
analisi matematica,
criminalistica,
geomatematica,
autopubblica,
nutraceutica,
retorica,
registroteca,
microplastica,
farmacofisica,
aerofisica,
iconoteca, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Italian riga, from Lombardic rīga (“line, row”), from Proto-Germanic *rīgǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyk- (-kh-) (“to scratch, cut”). Akin to Old High German rīga (“line”) (German Reihe (“row, series”)), Old Norse rēga (“string”) (Norwegian reig (“row, line”), Middle Dutch rīe (“line, row”), Old English rǣw (“line, row”). See: German Nouns '
Reihe', Old Norse Nouns '
réga'.
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