novia
See also: nòvia
Finnish
Noun
novia
Anagrams
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnobja/ [ˈno.β̞ja]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -obja
- Syllabification: no‧via
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *novia < Latin nova. Compare Portuguese noiva. See also novio.
Noun
novia f (plural novias)
- female equivalent of novio, girlfriend
- female equivalent of novio, fiancée
- Synonym: prometida
- (wedding) female equivalent of novio, bride
- (El Salvador) a type of sweet roll
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: nobya
Etymology 2
Verb
novia
- inflection of noviar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “novio”, 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
- “novia”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010