espada

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

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

espada f (plural espadas)

1. sword

• peixe espada

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

• IPA^(key): [esˈpa.ða]

espada f (plural espadas)

1. sword
   • c. 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 […]

   • Idem, f. 103v.

     […] la uertud dela figura de oḿe cauallero ſobre un leon. ¬ que tenga en la mano dieſtra eſpada deſnuda, ¬ en la ſinieſtra cabeça de oḿe.

     […] the virtue of the figure of a knightly man riding a lion, with an unsheathed sword in his right hand and the head of a man in his left.

• espalda

• Spanish: espada

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

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /es.ˈpa.da/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /eʃ.ˈpa.dɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɨʃ.ˈpa.dɐ/, [ɨʃ.ˈpa.ðɐ]
• Hyphenation: es‧pa‧da

espada f (plural espadas)

1. sword
2. (fencing) épée

• entre a espada e a parede
• peixe-espada

• Hindi: इस्पात (ispāt)

From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

• IPA^(key): /esˈpada/, [esˈpaða]

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)

• espadaña
• pez espada
• primero espada

• espalda

Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text)
corazones ♥	diamantes ♦	picas ♠	tréboles ♣

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

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

Borrowed from Spanish espada (“sword”).

espada

1. sword