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): (Valencia) [esˈpɔ.za]

• Audio:

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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): /esˈposa/ [es̺ˈpo.s̺ɐ]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Hyphenation: es‧po‧sa

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esposa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “esposa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esposa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “esposa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esposa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “esposa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “esposa” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Portuguese esposa and Spanish esposa.

esposa

1. wife

• esposo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese esposa, from Latin spōnsa.

• espôsa (pre-reform spelling)

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

esposa f (plural esposas)

1. female equivalent of esposo: wife
   • 2006, Norma Simões Lopes Duarte, Mulheres de um homem só, Editora AGE Ltda., →ISBN, page 36:

     Os pensamentos que fervilhavam em seus cérebros era: afinal, homens é que podiam falar palavrão e baixarias, não suas distintas esposas criadas em colégio de freiras.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (obsolete) bride

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]

• Audio:

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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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Spanish esposa. Doublet of posas.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔesˈposa/ [ʔɛsˈpoː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: es‧po‧sa

esposa (masculine esposo, Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜉᜓᜐ)

1. (literary) wife

   Synonyms: maybahay, (colloquial) misis

   Hypernyms: asawa, kabiyak, kabiyak ng dibdib

   • 1700s, José de la Cruz, Ibong Adarna:

     At ang caniyang esposa yaong mariquit, na reina, ang pangala't bansag niya ay si doña Valeriana.

     And his wife, yonder beautiful queen, the name given to her is Doña Valeriana.

• “esposa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024