Nicaragua
English edit
Etymology edit
Native town name Nicarao + Spanish agua (“water”)
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Nicaragua
- A country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Nicaragua.
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- Managua
- (countries of Central America) country of Central America; Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
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Nicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ni.kəˈɾa.ɣwə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ni.kaˈɾa.ɣwa]
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Nicaragua f
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Nicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Nicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Nicaragua ? n
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Nicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Inflection of Nicaragua (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Nicaragua | — | ||
genitive | Nicaraguan | — | ||
partitive | Nicaraguaa | — | ||
illative | Nicaraguaan | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Nicaragua | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Nicaragua | — | |
gen. | Nicaraguan | |||
genitive | Nicaraguan | — | ||
partitive | Nicaraguaa | — | ||
inessive | Nicaraguassa | — | ||
elative | Nicaraguasta | — | ||
illative | Nicaraguaan | — | ||
adessive | Nicaragualla | — | ||
ablative | Nicaragualta | — | ||
allative | Nicaragualle | — | ||
essive | Nicaraguana | — | ||
translative | Nicaraguaksi | — | ||
abessive | Nicaraguatta | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Nicaragua n (proper noun, genitive Nicaraguas or (optionally with an article) Nicaragua)
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Nicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | Nicaragua | — |
accusative | Nicaraguát | — |
dative | Nicaraguának | — |
instrumental | Nicaraguával | — |
causal-final | Nicaraguáért | — |
translative | Nicaraguává | — |
terminative | Nicaraguáig | — |
essive-formal | Nicaraguaként | — |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | Nicaraguában | — |
superessive | Nicaraguán | — |
adessive | Nicaraguánál | — |
illative | Nicaraguába | — |
sublative | Nicaraguára | — |
allative | Nicaraguához | — |
elative | Nicaraguából | — |
delative | Nicaraguáról | — |
ablative | Nicaraguától | — |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
Nicaraguáé | — |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
Nicaraguáéi | — |
Possessive forms of Nicaragua | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | Nicaraguám | — |
2nd person sing. | Nicaraguád | — |
3rd person sing. | Nicaraguája | — |
1st person plural | Nicaraguánk | — |
2nd person plural | Nicaraguátok | — |
3rd person plural | Nicaraguájuk | — |
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Nicaragua f
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡu.a/, [nɪkäˈräɡuä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ni.kaˈra.ɡu.a/, [nikäˈräːɡuä]
Proper noun edit
Nicaragua f sg (genitive Nicaraguae); first declension
- (New Latin) Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
Declension edit
First-declension noun, singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Nicaragua |
Genitive | Nicaraguae |
Dative | Nicaraguae |
Accusative | Nicaraguam |
Ablative | Nicaraguā |
Vocative | Nicaragua |
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Nicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Nicaragua
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Etymology edit
Unknown. One theory is that it was coined by Spanish colonists based upon the name of the local chief at that time, Classical Nahuatl Nicarao (“Nicarao”) + agua (“water”). Another is that it may have meant ‘surrounded by water’ in an indigenous language. (This could either be a reference to its two large freshwater lakes, Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua, or to the fact that it bounded on the east and the west by oceans.)
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Nicaragua f
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)
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Nicaragua n (genitive Nicaraguas)
- Nicaragua (a country in Central America)