noiva

== Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === From Old Galician-Portuguese novia, from a Vulgar Latin root novia, from Latin nova, possibly influenced by nupta. Compare Spanish novia. ==== Pronunciation ==== Hyphenation: noi‧va ==== Noun ==== noiva f (plural noivas) bride (female equivalent of noivo) fiancée (an engaged woman about to marry) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== noiva inflection of noivar: third-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “noiva”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “noiva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026