esposa

From Latin spōnsa.

esposa f (plural esposes)

1. wife (married woman)
2. handcuff

Inherited from Latin spōnsa. Compare Occitan esposa, French épouse, Spanish esposa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈpɔ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [esˈpɔ.za]

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• Rhymes: -oza

esposa f (plural esposes)

1. wife; female equivalent of espòs

From Old Galician-Portuguese esposa, from Latin spōnsa.

• IPA^(key): /esˈposa̝/

esposa f (plural esposas, masculine esposo, masculine plural esposos)

1. (dated) bride

   Synonym: noiva

2. wife

   Synonym: muller

3. (in the plural) handcuffs
   • 1457, F. R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 171:

     Torre de Rriãjo. O que rreçebeu Gonçaluo Mariño de Fernando de Catoyra cõ a casa e fortalesa de Rriãjo. Primeyramẽte: Húa cadea de ferro cõ seu cãdado e çinco farroupeas e dúas esposas. Hũas coyraças. Tres huchas. Tres ballestas: J de aseyro, IJ de pao. Quatro baçinetes. Hũu trono cõ seu serujdor e hũu fole de póluora. Dos carcaixes de biratõos. Hũu torno de armar ballesta.

     Tower of Rianxo. What Gonçalvo Mariño received from Fernando of Catoira, together with the tower-house and fortress at Rianxo. First: an iron chain with its padlock and five fetters and two handcuffs. Some cuirasses. Three chests. Three crossbows: one of steel, two of wood. Four bascinets. A bombard with its server and a skin of powder. Two quivers of bolts. A winch for charging crossbows.

• esponsais
• esposar
• esposas
• esposo
• esposorio

• “esposa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “esposa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “esposa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “esposa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “esposa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Portuguese esposa and Spanish esposa.

esposa

1. wife

• esposo

From Old Galician-Portuguese esposa, from Latin spōnsa.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈpozɐ/
• Hyphenation: es‧po‧sa

esposa f (plural esposas)

1. female equivalent of esposo: wife
2. (archaic or obsolete) bride
3. (usually in the plural) handcuffs(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:esposa.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: es‧po‧sa

esposa

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

• IPA^(key): /esˈposa/ [esˈpo.sa]

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• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: es‧po‧sa

Inherited from Latin spōnsa.

esposa f (plural esposas, masculine esposo, masculine plural esposos)

1. wife

   Synonyms: mujer, señora

   Coordinate terms: novia, pareja

2. (usually in the plural) handcuff

   Synonym: (Peru) marrocas

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

esposa

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

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

Borrowed from Spanish esposa. Doublet of posas.

• IPA^(key): /ʔesˈposa/, [ʔɛsˈpo.sɐ]
• Hyphenation: es‧po‧sa

esposa (masculine esposo, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜉᜓᜐ)

1. (literary) wife

   Synonyms: maybahay, kabiyak, kabiyak ng dibdib

   Hypernym: asawa

• “esposa” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021