águila
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Asturian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]águila f (plural águiles)
- Alternative form of aigla
Mirandese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]águila f (plural águilas)
Synonyms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish aguila, from Latin aquila. Cognate with French aigle, Italian aquila and Portuguese águia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]águila f (plural águilas)
- eagle
- (heraldry) eagle
- (figurative) crack; whizz; shrewd person
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Cuando indirectamente se le hacía reconocer su condición, él replicaba con mansedumbre pascual que su esposa padecía de los nervios, y ante argumentos de tal solidez científica, no cabía sino el silencio.
Sin embargo, para sus intereses era un águila.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el águila, un águila
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
Hyponyms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “águila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Asturian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian feminine nouns
- ast:Birds
- Mirandese terms inherited from Latin
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- Mirandese lemmas
- Mirandese nouns
- Mirandese feminine nouns
- mwl:Birds
- mwl:Birds of prey
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡila
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡila/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Heraldic charges
- Spanish terms with quotations
- es:Birds of prey