plumaje

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish pluma

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin -āticus

Latin -āticum

Old French -agebor.

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Latin -āticum

Old Occitan -atgebor.

Spanish -aje

Spanish plumaje

From pluma + -aje.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pluˈmaxe/ [pluˈma.xe]
  • Rhymes: -axe
• IPA^(key): /pluˈmaʃe/ [pluˈma.ʃe] (Early Modern Spanish)
  • Rhymes: -aʃe
• Syllabification: plu‧ma‧je

Noun

plumaje m (plural plumajes)

1. plumage (feathers)

Related terms

• pluma
• plumífero

Descendants

• → Tagalog: plumahe, pulumasi

Further reading

• “plumaje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025