rapiña

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See also: rapina and rapiñá

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raˈpiɲa/
  • Rhymes: -iɲa
  • Syllabification: ra‧pi‧ña

Etymology 1

From older Old Spanish rapina, borrowed from Latin rapīna, from rapiō (cf. also Old Spanish rabir). The -ñ- was due to influence from rapiñar, or possibly from an older Portuguese form.[1]

Noun

rapiña f (plural rapiñas)

  1. rapine, pillage
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

rapiña

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

References

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

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