águila
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish aguila, from Latin aquila. Cognate with French aigle, Italian aquila and Portuguese águia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaɡila/ [ˈa.ɣ̞i.la]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -aɡila
- Syllabification: á‧gui‧la
Noun
águila f (plural águilas)
- eagle
- (heraldry) eagle
- (figurative) crack; whizz; shrewd person
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:
- Cuando indirectamente se le hacía reconocer su condición, él replicaba con mansedumbre pascual que su esposa padecía de los nervios, y ante argumentos de tal solidez científica, no cabía sino el silencio.
Sin embargo, para sus intereses era un águila.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading
- “águila”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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