fragua

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See also: frágua and fraguá

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾaɡwa/
  • Rhymes: -aɡwa
  • Syllabification: fra‧gua

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish fragua, from older frauga, from a presumed earlier form *fravga, from a Vulgar Latin *frabica, a metathetic form of Latin fabrica (“workshop”),[1] from faber (“forger, smith”). Doublet of froga, fábrica, and forja, the second borrowed from Latin and the third from French. Compare Portuguese frágua.

Noun

fragua f (plural fraguas)

  1. forge

Etymology 2

Verb

fragua

  1. inflection of fraguar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “fragua”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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