viuda
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin vidua, following metathesis.
Noun
viuda f (plural viudes)
- widow (a woman whose husband has died)
Coordinate terms
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin vidua, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. In the Middle Ages, jurists introduced a learned Latin borrowing vídua to replace the inherited Old Catalan form viuva (from a Vulgar Latin *viduva). The current form viuda supposedly emerged as a compromise between the two forms[1]. The masculine form was derived from the feminine. Cf. also Spanish viuda, which may have influenced it.
Pronunciation
Adjective
viuda f sg
Noun
viuda f (plural viudes, masculine viudo)
Related terms
References
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish viuda, vibda, bibda, biuda, from Latin vidua, following metathesis[1], and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂. The Spanish word may have had some later influence from the Latin in the Middle Ages; compare the strictly popular Old Spanish form viuva, which is the form also found in Portuguese and Old Catalan, deriving from a Vulgar Latin *viduva.
Pronunciation
Noun
viuda f (plural viudas, masculine viudo, masculine plural viudos)
Derived terms
Adjective
viuda
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective viudo.
References
- Asturian terms derived from Latin
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan non-lemma forms
- Catalan adjective forms
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish adjective forms
- Spanish adjective feminine forms
- es:Death
- es:Family