fêmea
Portuguese
/ˈfe.me.ɐ/, /ˈfe.mjɐ/
noun
Definitions
- female
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese femea inherited from Latin fēmina (woman, female, wife) inherited from Proto-Italic *fēmanā inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (who sucks, one who suckles, one who is sucked, nursing, breastfeeding).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂
Gloss
who sucks, one who suckles, one who is sucked, nursing, breastfeeding
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- femicide English
- feminology English
- femme English
- hembra English
- (homo) *feminus Latin
- femella Latin
- femina Latin
- feminal Latin
- femineus Latin
- femininus Latin
- fēmina Latin
- fēminam Latin
- fēminīnus Latin
- femmina Italian
- femminicidio Italian
- femminiello Italian
- femminuccia Italian
- superfemmina Italian
- femme French
- femme d'État French
- femme fatale French
- femmelette French
- féminologie French
- sage-femme French
- femicidio Spanish, Castilian
- feminicidio Spanish, Castilian
- feminología Spanish, Castilian
- fémina Spanish, Castilian
- hembra Spanish, Castilian
- hembrismo Spanish, Castilian
- hembrista Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁(y)- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁(y)-m̥n-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂, *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- femicídio Portuguese
- feminicídio Portuguese
- feminologi Danish
- fame Old French
- femme Old French
- feminitzar Catalan, Valencian
- femia Galician
- femicidio Galician
- feminicidio Galician
- famen Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- femme Middle French
- femea Old Portuguese
- femna Occitan
- *fēmanā Proto-Italic
- femine Friulian
- femna Old Occitan
- femna Old Spanish
- fémena Venetian
- femia Dalmatian
- fanm Haitian, Haitian Creole
- fam Mauritian Creole
- femena Ladin
- femmena Neapolitan
- fimana Istriot
- fam Louisiana Creole French
- fame Louisiana Creole French
- fanm Seychellois Creole
- fèna Franco-Provençal
- fanm Antillean Creole
- fam Karipúna Creole French