pleoapă

Romanian

Alternative forms

• plioapă
• pleopă, plopă — regional

Etymology

Cf. Bulgarian похлупка (pohlupka). Alternatively derived from the earlier forms pleopă and plopă (now regional variants), from a Vulgar Latin *pluppa, metathesis of *pupla, from a contraction of Latin pūpula (“pupil”). Compare the transition from Latin populus to Romanian plop (which also has a variant form pleop).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈple̯o̯a.pə/, /pleˈo̯a.pə/

Noun

pleoapă f (plural pleoape)

1. eyelid

Declension

Declension of pleoapă

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) pleoapă	pleoapa	(niște) pleoape	pleoapele
genitive/dative	(unei) pleoape	pleoapei	(unor) pleoape	pleoapelor
vocative	pleoapă, pleoapo		pleoapelor

See also

• geană