bexiga

Mezquital Otomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Early Modern Spanish vejiga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βéʃíɣa/

Noun

béxíga

1. blister

References

• Hernández Cruz, Luis, Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45)‎^[1] (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 12

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin vessīca, variant of vēsīca. Presumably came via a northern dialect or Galician on account of the /b-/. Compare Galician vexiga, Spanish vejiga. Doublet of vesico-, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈʃi.ɡɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈʃi.ɡɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈʃi.ɡa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨˈʃi.ɡɐ/ [bɨˈʃi.ɣɐ]

• Hyphenation: be‧xi‧ga

Noun

bexiga f (plural bexigas)

1. bladder
2. (Brazil) balloon

   Synonym: balão

Related terms

• vesícula

Further reading

• “bexiga” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “bexiga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “bexiga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025