fêmea
Portuguese
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)
Antonyms
Descendants
- Kabuverdianu: fémia
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 terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns