esponsa

== Old Galician-Portuguese == === Alternative forms === sponssa, sponia, sponja === Etymology === Semi-learned borrowing from Latin spongia, borrowed from Ancient Greek σπογγιά (spongiá), from σπόγγος (spóngos) + -ιά (-iá). Doublet of espunlha. === Noun === esponsa f (plural *esponsas) sponge ==== Descendants ==== Fala: esponja Galician: esponxa Portuguese: esponja (see there for further descendants) === References === Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “spons+a”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “esponja”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa