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viga

/ˈviːɡə/

viga noun: a roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village.

Noun

viga (plural vigas)

  1. (New Mexico) A roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village
    • The smoke spread along the sagging vigas above them and little streams of liquid clay started down from the sod roof.1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter IX, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC
    • The vigas were partly down and hunters or herdsmen had built fires in the floor.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy; 1), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Viga

Viga

  1. A municipality of Catanduanes, Philippines.

Forms of viga

pluralvigas

Origin of viga

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

Words that rhyme with viga

Questions about viga

What does viga mean?
Viga means a roughly-made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village.
What part of speech is viga?
Viga can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce viga?
Viga is pronounced /ˈviːɡə/.
What is the plural of viga?
The plural of viga is vigas.

Words near viga in the dictionary

  1. viffed
  2. viffing
  3. viffs
  4. vig
  5. vig'rous
  6. viga
  7. Vigaan
  8. vigabatrin
  9. Vigan
  10. Vigar
  11. vigas

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