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espada
espada
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowing from Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da
Noun
espada
- A sword.
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese espada, from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).
Noun
espada f (plural espadas)
Derived terms
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin spatham, accusative of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [esˈpa.ða]
Noun
espada f (plural espadas)
- sword
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 64r.
- De natura es fria ¬ humida. Et fazen della mangos pora cuchiello ¬ pora eſpadas […]
- It is cold and damp in nature, and they make handles for knives and swords out of it […]
- De natura es fria ¬ humida. Et fazen della mangos pora cuchiello ¬ pora eſpadas […]
- Idem, f. 103v.
- […] la uertud dela figura de oḿe cauallero ſobre un leon. ¬ que tenga en la mano dieſtra eſpada deſnuda, ¬ en la ſinieſtra cabeça de oḿe.
- […] the virtue of the figure of a knightly man riding a lion, with an unsheathed sword in his right hand and the head of a man in his left.
- […] la uertud dela figura de oḿe cauallero ſobre un leon. ¬ que tenga en la mano dieſtra eſpada deſnuda, ¬ en la ſinieſtra cabeça de oḿe.
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 64r.
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Descendants
- Spanish: espada
Portuguese
espada
Etymology
From Old Portuguese espada, from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.
Pronunciation
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /es.ˈpa.da/
- (Carioca) IPA(key): /eʃ.ˈpa.dɐ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɨʃ.ˈpa.ðɐ/
- Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da
Noun
espada f (plural espadas)
Derived terms
- entre a espada e a parede
- peixe-espada
Related terms
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Descendants
- Hindi: इस्पात (ispāt)