pleoapă

Romanian

Alternative forms
  • plioapă
  • (regional) pleopă, plopă

Etymology

Cf. Bulgarian похлупка (pohlupka). Alternatively derived from the earlier forms pleopă and plopă (now regional variants), from a Vulgar Latin *pluppa, metathesis of *pupla, from a contraction of Latin pūpula (“pupil”). [1] Compare the transition from Latin populus to Romanian plop (which also has a variant form pleop).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈple̯o̯apə/, /pleˈo̯apə/

Noun

pleoapă f (plural pleoape)

  1. eyelid

See also

References
  1. http://www.toatecuvintele.ro/cuvant/pleoapa
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