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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fēmina (“woman, wife, female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).
Cognate with Old Spanish femna.
Adjective
femea m or f (plural femeas)
- female
- Coordinate term: macho
1390, anonymous author, Miragres de Santiago; republished as José Luís Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid, 1958, page 4:O señor de hũ castelo que eu ora teno ouve dous fillos, et hũu era varõ et o outro era femea; et esta que era femea casou cõ hũu caualeiro […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
femea f (plural femeas)
- female
- Coordinate term: macho
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