águila

From Latin aquila.

águila f (plural águiles)

1. eagle

From Latin aquila.

águila f (plural águilas)

1. eagle

• aila

From Old Spanish aguila, from Latin aquila. Cognate with French aigle, Italian aquila and Portuguese águia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡila/ [ˈa.ɣ̞i.la]

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• Rhymes: -aɡila
• Syllabification: á‧gui‧la

águila f (plural águilas)

1. eagle
2. (heraldry) eagle
3. (figurative) crack; whizz; shrewd person
   • 1926, Roberto Arlt, "Los ladrones", in El juguete rabioso

     Cuando indirectamente se le hacía reconocer su condición, él replicaba con mansedumbre pascual que su esposa padecía de los nervios, y ante argumentos de tal solidez científica, no cabía sino el silencio.
     Sin embargo, para sus intereses era un águila.

• The feminine noun águila is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed /a/ sound in that it takes the articles el and un (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el águila

un águila

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with stressed /a/ such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la or una.

• águila harpía
• águila parda
• águila perdicera
• águila pescadora
• águila real

• → Cebuano: agila
• → Hiligaynon: agila
• → Tagalog: agila

• “águila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014