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Portuguese
Verb
repisa
- inflection of repisar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈpisa/
- Rhymes: -isa
- Syllabification: re‧pi‧sa
Etymology 1
Deverbal from repisar, from re- + pisar.
Noun
repisa f (plural repisas)
- shelf, ledge
- Synonyms: estantería, librero
1897, Tomás Carrasquilla Naranjo, Blanca (a las damas de Medellín):Y cual si con la admiración se le acabase el entusiasmo hormiguero, corre al santuario, quita la Virgen, la carga en el delantal y la da á Ester para que se la ponga en la repisa del Divino Rostro, donde había que colocársela siempre "para que no estuviera solita".- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
repisa
- inflection of repisar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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