Noun: prata
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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os ouriuez non deuen a fondir moeda nihua que seja, saluo sua prata quando lle seyr salagre (the goldsmiths shall not smelt any coin whatsoever, except of their silver when it results brittle) [1289, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 114:]
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Como ſanta maria ſſe uingou do crerigo que furtou a prata da cruz. (How Holy Mary avenged Herself on the cleric who stole the silver from the cross.) [a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 318 ([[http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/E/565small.gif] facsimile]):]
Nouns inflected like prata
Africa,
nacença,
jornada,
quaraesma,
arrafẽes,
natureza,
desinteria,
astẽença,
merda,
trave,
prata,
prima,
ley,
ora,
paz,
memoria,
amedes,
lediça,
Inglaterra,
carcel, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Semi-learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin *plattus. The term originally meant “flattened” in Latin, having the change in sense to “silver” because it was often made into sheets. Doublet of prato and *chato
2. Cognate with Old Spanish plata.
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