viuda

From Latin vidua, following metathesis.

viuda f (plural viudes)

1. widow (a woman whose husband has died)

• viudu

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.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈviw.də/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbiw.də/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈviw.da/

viuda f sg

1. feminine singular of viudo

viuda f (plural viudes, masculine viudo)

1. widow

• vidu

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbjuda/, [ˈbjuða]

viuda f (plural viudas, masculine viudo, masculine plural viudos)

1. widow

viuda

1. Feminine singular of adjective viudo.