viuda – Catalan noun declension

Noun: viuda
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular m	viudo
Singular f	viuda
Plural m	viudos
Plural f	viudes

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like viuda

nòvia, viuda, diva,

Etymology

1. From Latin vidua.
2. In the Middle Ages, jurists introduced a learned Latin borrowing vídua to replace the inherited Old Catalan form viuva (from a Vulgar Latin *viduva). The current form viuda supposedly emerged as a compromise between the two forms. The masculine form was derived from the feminine. Cf. also Spanish viuda, which may have influenced it. See: Latin Nouns 'vidua', Spanish Nouns 'viuda'.

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