espada
See also: Espada
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).
Derived terms
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da
Etymology 2
After the appearance of its leaves.
Etymology 3
Compare sili espada.
Galician
Etymology
From Old Portuguese espada, from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin spatham, accusative of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [esˈpa.ða]
Noun
espada f (plural espadas)
- sword
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 64r.
- De natura es fria ¬ humida. Et fazen della mangos pora cuchiello ¬ pora eſpadas […]
- It is cold and damp in nature, and they make handles for knives and swords out of it […]
- De natura es fria ¬ humida. Et fazen della mangos pora cuchiello ¬ pora eſpadas […]
- Idem, f. 103v.
- […] la uertud dela figura de oḿe cauallero ſobre un leon. ¬ que tenga en la mano dieſtra eſpada deſnuda, ¬ en la ſinieſtra cabeça de oḿe.
- […] the virtue of the figure of a knightly man riding a lion, with an unsheathed sword in his right hand and the head of a man in his left.
- […] la uertud dela figura de oḿe cauallero ſobre un leon. ¬ que tenga en la mano dieſtra eſpada deſnuda, ¬ en la ſinieſtra cabeça de oḿe.
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 64r.
Related terms
Portuguese
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espada
Etymology
From Old Portuguese espada, from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.
Pronunciation
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /es.ˈpa.da/
- (Carioca) IPA(key): /eʃ.ˈpa.dɐ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɨʃ.ˈpa.dɐ/, [ɨʃ.ˈpa.ðɐ]
- Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da
Derived terms
- entre a espada e a parede
- peixe-espada
Related terms
- espadachim
- espadada
- espadarte
- espadas
- espadeirada
- espadeirão
- espadeirar
- espadeiro
- espadilha
- espadim
Spanish
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Una espada ― A sword
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Una espada ― An epee
Etymology
From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈpada/, [esˈpaða]
Noun
espada f (plural espadas)
- sword (long-bladed weapon with a hilt)
- (usually in the plural) spade (playing card marked with the symbol ♠)
- (fencing) épée (fencing sword of a certain modern type)
- (heraldry) sword (the weapon used as a heraldic charge)
espada m or f (plural espadas)
- (bullfighting) matador (person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight)
Derived terms
Related terms
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corazones ♥ | diamantes ♦ | picas ♠ | tréboles ♣ |
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espadas | copas | oros | bastos |
Further reading
- “espada” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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