espía

From Gothic *𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰 (*spaiha), from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”) (compare Anglo-Norman espie, French espion, Italian spia, , English spy, German spähen (“to peek, spy”) and Latin speciō (“I look, watch”)).

• IPA^(key): [esˈpiɐ]

espía m or f by sense (plural espías)

1. spy
   • 1810, José Fernandez y Neira, Proezas de Galicia:

     cando neste estado chegou unha espía nosa (que nunca parecera) decendo que viña Sul de Portugal con doce mil homes

     when, in this stance, a spy of us arrived —didn't look as one— saying that Marshal General Soult was coming from Portugal with twelve thousand men

• espiar

• espionaxe

espía f (plural espías)

1. (regional) Alternative form of espiña

espía

1. inflection of espiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of espir

• “espía” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “espía” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “espía” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /esˈpia/ [esˈpi.a]

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: es‧pí‧a

From Old Spanish espia, from Gothic *𐍃𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰 (*spaiha),[1] from Proto-Germanic *spehōną (“to see, look”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”) (compare Anglo-Norman espie, French espion, Italian spia, English spy, German spähen (“to peek, spy”) and Latin speciō (“to look, watch”)).

espía m or f by sense (plural espías)

1. spy

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

espía

1. inflection of espiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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