tigresa

Portuguese

Etymology

From tigre (“tiger”) +‎ -esa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɡɾe.zɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɡɾe.zɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈɡɾe.za/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tiˈɡɾe.zɐ/ [tiˈɣɾe.zɐ]

• Rhymes: -ezɐ
• Hyphenation: ti‧gre‧sa

Noun

tigresa f (plural tigresas)

1. tigress (female tiger)

Spanish

Etymology

From tigre (“tiger”) +‎ -esa (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiˈɡɾesa/ [t̪iˈɣ̞ɾe.sa]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: ti‧gre‧sa

Noun

tigresa f (plural tigresas)

1. female equivalent of tigre; tigress

Further reading

• “tigre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28