espada

Spanish espada

espada (plural espadas)

1. (bullfighting) A matador.
   • 1891, The Living Age, volume 190, page 653:

     That first day taught me I could be an espada. The only doubt in my mind was in regard to the nature of the bulls.

From Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).

espada f (plural espades)

1. sword

• pexe espada

• espalda

• Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da

Borrowed from Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

espada

1. a sword

After the appearance of its leaves.

espada

1. the African spear (Sansevieria cylindrica)

Compare sili espada.

espada

1. a long, thin, bright green chili closely resembling the cayenne and Basque Fryer peppers

espada m or f by sense (plural espadas)

1. bullfighter

From Old Galician-Portuguese espada, from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”).

espada f (plural espadas)

1. sword

• peixe espada

Borrowed from Spanish espada.

• Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da
• IPA^(key): /ʔesˈpada/, [ʔesˈpa.da]

espada

1. sword

   Synonym: kampilan

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espada f (plural espadas)

1. sword

   Synonym: espasa

From Latin spatham, accusative of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”).

• IPA^(key): /esˈpada/

espada f (plural espadas)

1. sword
   • between 1140 and 1207, Anonymous (or Per Abbat), Cantar de mío Cid 58:

     Myo çid Ruy diaz el que en buẽ ora çinxo eſpada

     My Cid, Ruy Díaz, who at a good time he girded himself with a sword (common epithet of the Cid)

   • ca. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario f. 64r.:

     De natura es fria & humida / Et fazen della mangos pora cuchiello & pora eſpadas

     It is cold and damp in nature, and they make handles for knives and swords out of it

   • ca. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario f. 103v.:

     la uertud dela figura de om̃e cauallero ſobre un leon, & que tenga en la mano dieſtra eſpada deſnuda, & en la ſinieſtra cabeça de om̃e

     the virtue of the figure of a knightly man riding a lion, with an unsheathed sword at his right hand and the head of a man at his left hand

• espalda

• Spanish: espada

From Old Galician-Portuguese espada, through prothesis from Latin spatha (“a type of sword”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “broad blade”), likely from Proto-Indo-European *sph₂-dʰ-.

• Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da

espada f (plural espadas)

1. sword
2. (fencing) épée
3. singular of espadas (“spades”) (one of the four suits of playing cards)

• entre a cruz e a espada
• peixe-espada

• → Assamese: ইস্পাত (ispat)
• → Bengali: ইস্পাত (iśpat)
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: इस्पात (ispāt)
  • Urdu: اسپات‎ (ispāt)
• → Maithili: 𑒃𑒮𑒣𑒰𑒞 / इसपात (𑒃𑒮𑒣𑒰𑒞 / isᵊpāt)

From Old Spanish espada, from Latin spatham, accusative of spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

• IPA^(key): /esˈpada/ [esˈpa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: es‧pa‧da

espada f (plural espadas)

1. sword (long-bladed weapon with a hilt)
2. (usually in the plural) spade (playing card marked with the symbol ♠)
3. (fencing) épée (fencing sword of a certain modern type)
4. (heraldry) sword (the weapon used as a heraldic charge)

espada m or f (plural espadas)

1. (bullfighting) matador (person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight)

• espalda

Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text)
corazones	diamantes	picas	tréboles

Spanish suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text)
espadas	copas	oros	bastos

• → Cebuano: espada
• → Tagalog: espada

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

Borrowed from Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

• Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da
• IPA^(key): /ʔesˈpada/, [ʔɛsˈpa.dɐ]

espada (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜉᜇ)

1. sword
2. (colloquial) swordplay

   Synonym: espadahan

3. (card games) spade
4. swordfish

   Synonyms: dugso, isdang-espada

5. sword plant
6. a kind of aquatic plant with fibrous roots

   Synonym: lanting

• sable

• “espada”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018