espia
Catalan
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ia
Derived terms
Italian
Verb
espia
- inflection of espiare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Gothic *𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰 (*spaiha), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /esˈpia/
Noun
espia f (plural espias)
- spy
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 22v.
- Mando el nŕo ſeńor amoẏſen q́ tremetiesſe eſpias atiera de chanaan por barútar q́ tŕa era
- Our Lord ordered Moses to send spies to the land of Canaan to get a sense of what [kind of] land it was.
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 22v.
Related terms
Descendants
- Spanish: espía
Portuguese
Verb
espia
- inflection of espiar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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