flecha

Borrowed from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, of Frankish origin.

flecha f (plural fleches)

1. arrow (projectile)
2. arrow (symbol)

• frecha (obsolete or dialectal)

Relatinization of earlier frecha influenced by French flèche, from Old Galician-Portuguese frecha, from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, from Frankish *fliukkijā.

• Rhymes: -ɛʃɐ
• Hyphenation: fle‧cha

flecha f (plural flechas)

1. arrow (projectile)
2. arrow (symbol)
3. (architecture) spire

• (arrow) frecha, seta (both meanings)
• (spire): agulha f

• arco m

• IPA^(key): /ˈflet͡ʃa/ [ˈfle.t͡ʃa]

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• Rhymes: -etʃa
• Syllabification: fle‧cha

Inherited from Old Spanish frecha, flecha, borrowed from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, of Frankish origin.

flecha f (plural flechas)

1. arrow (projectile)

   Synonym: saeta

2. arrow (symbol)

flecha

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

• “flecha”, 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