bainha
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese baynna, vaynna, inherited from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”). Compare Spanish vaina, Catalan beina, also French gaine, Italian guaina. Cf. also Portuguese vagina, a borrowing from the same source.
Noun
bainha f (plural bainhas)
Categories:
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Sewing
- pt:Containers