espiga

Inherited from Latin spīca (“spike”).

• IPA^(key): /esˈpiɡa/, [esˈpi.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Hyphenation: es‧pi‧ga

espiga f (plural espigues)

1. spike (ear of grain)

Inherited from Latin spīca (“spike”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈpi.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [esˈpi.ɣa]

espiga f (plural espigues)

1. spike (ear of grain)

• “espiga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “espiga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “espiga” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “espiga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

espiga

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese espiga (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin spīca (“spike”).

• espía

• IPA^(key): [esˈpiɣɐ]

espiga f (plural espigas)

1. spike (ear of grain)
2. part of the axis that protrudes past the wheel

   Synonym: espigo

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

• “espiga”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

espiga

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

• espija (Limousin)

From Old Occitan espiga, from Latin spīca.

• Audio (Languedocien)

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espiga f (plural espigas)

1. (Languedoc) spike (ear of grain)

From Latin spīca (“spike”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *spheh₁y- (“sharp, sharp stick”).

• IPA^(key): /es̺.ˈpi.ɡa/

espiga f (plural espigas)

1. (botany) spike (ear of grain)

• Galician: espiga
• Portuguese: espiga

• Hyphenation: es‧pi‧ga

From Old Galician-Portuguese espiga, from Latin spīca (“spike”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *spheh₁y- (“sharp, sharp stick”). Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan espiga, Occitan espic, French épi, Italian spiga and Romanian spic.

espigas de trigo

espiga f (plural espigas)

1. (botany) spike (ear of grain)
2. corncob

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

espiga

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

• “espiga” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• IPA^(key): /esˈpiɡa/ [esˈpi.ɣ̞a]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: es‧pi‧ga

espiga

Inherited from Old Spanish espiga, from Latin spīca.

espiga f (plural espigas)

1. (botany) spike (ear of grain)
2. dowel

espiga

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

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