águila

See also: aguila, Aguila, Águila, and àguila

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aquila.

Noun

águila f (plural águiles)

1. eagle

Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin aquila.

Noun

águila f (plural águilas)

1. eagle

Synonyms

• aila

Spanish

Águila

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish aguila, from Latin aquila. Cognate with French aigle, Italian aquila and Portuguese águia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡila/ [ˈa.ɣ̞i.la]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɡila
• Syllabification: á‧gui‧la

Noun

águila f (plural águilas)

1. eagle
2. (heraldry) eagle
3. (figurative) crack; whizz; shrewd person
   • 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:

     Cuando indirectamente se le hacía reconocer su condición, él replicaba con mansedumbre pascual que su esposa padecía de los nervios, y ante argumentos de tal solidez científica, no cabía sino el silencio.
     Sin embargo, para sus intereses era un águila.

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Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el águila, un águila

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Hyponyms

• águila calzada
• águila harpía
• águila moteada
• águila parda
• águila perdicera
• águila pescadora
• águila real
• águila volatinera

 

Derived terms

• águila culebrera
• aguilar
• aguileño
• aguilera
• aguililla
• aguilita
• aguilón
• aguilucho
• palo del águila
• piedra del águila
• vista de águila

 

Related terms

• aquilino

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: agila
• → Hiligaynon: agila
• → Tagalog: agila

Further reading

• “águila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014