fêmea

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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese femea, femẽa (“female”), from Latin fēmina (“woman, wife, female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).

Cognate with Galician femia, Spanish hembra, Occitan femna, French femme, Italian femmina and Romanian famen.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: fê‧me‧a

Noun

fêmea f (plural fêmeas)

  1. female

Antonyms

Descendants

  • Kabuverdianu: fémia
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