águila

See also: aguila and àguila

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin aquila.

Noun

águila f (plural águiles)

1. eagle

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Mirandese

Etymology

From Latin aquila.

Noun

águila f (plural águilas)

1. eagle

Synonyms

• aila

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Spanish

Águila

Etymology

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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Noun

águila f (plural águilas)

1. eagle
2. (heraldry) eagle
3. (figuratively) 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.

Usage notes

• The feminine noun águila is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed /a/ sound in that it takes the articles el and un (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el águila

un águila

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with stressed /a/ such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la or una.

Hyponyms

• águila harpía
• águila parda
• águila perdicera
• águila pescadora
• águila real

Derived terms

• águila culebrera
• aguilar
• aguileño
• aguilera
• aguililla
• aguilita
• aguilón
• aguilucho

 

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