Noun: cova
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cova |
| Plural f | covas |
Sample Sentences
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Anque à prea non hègrande
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si ca si, ò sacristan
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disque à pestàna do figado
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se lle hiba alegrando já.
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Ô cont'hè, si enturra n'eso
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Deus me libre das suas más,
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que'anque eu non queira, na Coba
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de chantarme heche capàz. (Although the booty is not large,
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anyhow, the sacristan's
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liver's eyes, reportedly,
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were shinning bright.
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The issue is, if he persists,
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God save me from his hands,
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that even if I don't want, in the grave
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he is capable of thrusting me) [1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:]
Nouns inflected like cova
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cova (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Either from an archaic Latin *covus, Classical cavus (or variant of a Late Latin cava, from cavum), or from Vulgar Latin covus (“hollow of the hand”), or from a substrate; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos (“cavity”). Cognate with Portuguese cova and Spanish cueva. See: Portuguese Nouns '
cova', Spanish Nouns '
cueva'.
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