esponsa – Old Portuguese noun declension

Old Portuguese noun forms of esponsa

Noun: esponsa
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	esponsa
Plural f	esponsas

Sample Sentences

[…]et estancado o sange pom ençima do figo esponsa do mar et apretaa ben con huun pano de lino et legao ben et non lle tollas esta sponssa do mar ataa que seia o figo todo comesto et rraudo da huña[…] [1420, chapter III, in Álvaro Eans das Eiras, transl., Tratado de Albeitaria, translation of De Medicina Equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 4:]

Nouns inflected like esponsa

berengenha, esponsa, lonja, vista, guitarra, lingua, bola,

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin spongia, borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγῐᾱ́ (spongĭā́), from σπόγγος (spóngos) + -ιά (-iá). Doublet of espunlha.

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