banana

Os chimpancés utilizan bastóns para coller unha banana.

Chimpanzees use sticks to pick up a banana.


granada

[ɡɾaˈna.ð̞ɐ]

[ɡɾaˈna.ð̞ɐ]

[ħɾaˈna.ð̞ɐ]

From the feminine of Latin grānātum (“pomegranate”), from grānātus (“having many seeds”), from grānum (“seed, grain”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm (“grain”).


uva

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.


tomate

Borrowed from Spanish tomate, from Classical Nahuatl tomatl (“tomatillo”), the tomato proper being xītomatl.

Pois temos sopa de fideos, cocido, merluza frita e língoa con tomate.


faba

From Old Galician-Portuguese fava, from Latin faba.

inflammatory sickness of the mouth of the horses


limón

Attested since 1457 (limõ (“lemon tree”)). From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn), from Persian لیمو (limu), لیمون (limun), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū).


ovo

From Old Galician-Portuguese ovo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.

A galiña pón o ovo para proveito da muller.

The hen lays the egg for the benefit of the woman.


nabo

From Old Galician-Portuguese nabo (attested from 1257 in Galician documents), from Latin nāpus (“turnip”).

Pedro Periz filou vun nabo con ſuas uerſſas na mao da dita curtina τ meteuo ao dito abade na mao, dizendo que la entregaua a dita curtina τ aſ ditas caſas como ſuas

1283, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 191

Pedro Pérez took in his hand a turnip of the aforementioned farmland, with its greens, and put it in the hand of the abbot, while saying that the was giving back this farmland with its buildings

Brassica rapa
Brassica rapa#Translingual

(botany, cooking) turnip (Brassica rapa)


vide

From Old Galician-Portuguese vide, from Latin vītis, vītem.


estragón

[es̺.t̪ɾɑˈɣ̞oŋ]

[es̺.t̪ɾɑˈɣ̞oŋ]

[es̺.t̪ɾɑˈħoŋ]

Borrowed from French estragon (“tarragon”).


melón

15th century. Probably from Old French melon, from Late Latin mēlō, mēlōnem, shortening of Latin mēlopepō, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn, “melon”).


figo

From Old Galician-Portuguese figo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīcus (“fig tree, fig (fruit)”).

non daredes de prexegos, nen de figos

1366, M .Lucas Alvarez, M. & P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media, Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 520:


pataca

Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata.


apio

Para esto ual enprasto feito de çumo da alosna et do apeo et de çera et de exulla de porco uello et pouco de vjno branco et ferua todo esto desuun con fariña triga

1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

For this is good a plaster made of wormwood juice, and of celery, and of wax, and of old pork grease, and some white wine, and let all this boil with wheat flour


cebada

From Old Galician-Portuguese cevada (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cibāta (“food”).

dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas

1287, “El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives”, in E. Duro Peña, editor, Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:

you'll give this monastery's abbess a dinner each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this dinner a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens


baga

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin bāca (“berry”).


sandía

Borrowed from Arabic سِنْدِيَّة (sindiyya, “Sindhi”), from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu).

Citrullus lanatus
Citrullus lanatus#Translingual

watermelon (Citrullus lanatus, a vine-like flowering plant)


plátano

Learned borrowing from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).


oliva

From Old Galician-Portuguese oliva, from Latin olīva. The preservation of intervocalic /l/ is irregular, so it was perhaps borrowed from Mozarabic. Modern pronunciation is adapted from Spanish, since olive and olive oil is not produced in most of Galicia.


morango

Uncertain. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *moranicum, from Latin morum (“mulberry”), or from amora (“bramble; blackberry”) + -ango, but given the related forms amorodo, morogo, morote and the cognates, Portuguese morango and Asturian meruéndano, then probably from a substrate language *morotanu.


ameixeira

outra leira d'erdade que esta alende desta con duas ameixeiras et vides

1365, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 495:

another plot which is beyond this one, with two plum trees and vines


ameixa

From Old Galician-Portuguese (independently attested in both corpora), from Vulgar Latin *damascina, from Latin damascēna (prūna) n pl (“Damascene plums”), with a loss of initial 'd'. Cognate with English damson and damascene. Possibly indirectly influenced by Etymology 2.


arando

From Old Galician-Portuguese *arandão, from the same origin that Spanish arándano.


amora

From Old Galician-Portuguese mora (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *mora, from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

Xa non iremos mais po-los roleiros
en compaña amorosa áas moras, non.
Nin baixo dos follosos ameneiros
as coitas che direi do corazon.

We'll no longer go by the hedges
in loving company for blackberries, no.
Nor under the leafy alders
the afflictions of the heart I'll tell you.


quiabo

Abelmoschus esculentus
Abelmoschus esculentus#Translingual

okra (vegetable, Abelmoschus esculentus)


sorba

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *sorba, formed from the plural of Latin sorbum (compare Portuguese sorva, Spanish serba).


marmelo

From Old Galician-Portuguese marmelo, from Latin melimelum (“sweet apple”), from Ancient Greek μελίμηλον (melímēlon), from μέλι (méli, “honey”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).


verdura

[beɾˈð̞u.ɾɐ]

Attested since circa 1300. From verde (“green”) + -ura or from Late Latin *virdura.

(countable or uncountable) greens; vegetable, especially a leafy vegetable


aneto

From Latin anethum, from Ancient Greek ἄνηθον (ánēthon).


aguacate

[ɑ.ɣ̞wɑˈkɑ.t̪ɪ]

[ɑ.ɣ̞wɑˈkɑ.t̪ɪ]

[ɑ.ħwɑˈkɑ.t̪ɪ]

From Classical Nahuatl ahuacatl (“avocado”).


viñedo

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin vīnētum, influenced by viña. Compare Portuguese vinhedo.


alcachofra

[ɑɫ.kɑˈt͡ʃo.fɾɐ]

Borrowed from Old Spanish alcarchofa, from Arabic الخُرْشُوف (al-ḵuršūf, “artichoke”).


cebola

From Old Galician-Portuguese cebola, from Latin cēpulla, diminutive of Latin cēpa. Compare Portuguese cebola, Asturian and Spanish cebolla.

quinze restres de cebolas boas das que ouver en o dito casar de LXVIII cebolas a restre

1347, M. Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310):

fifteen plaits of good onions, of the ones produced at that farm, each plait made with 68 onions

Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se tome espeso como jngento

c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:

for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, kneaded and cooked and stirred till is thick as an ointment


espárrago

From Latin sparagus, asparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos).


perico

gl-adj

perico (feminine perica, masculine plural pericos, feminine plural pericas)

perica (feminine)
pericos (masculine plural)
pericas (feminine plural)

Probably from Perico, a diminutive of the personal name Pedro (“Peter”)


perico

gl-noun

perico m (plural pericos, feminine perica, feminine plural pericas)

pericos (plural)
perica (feminine)
pericas (feminine plural)


laranxa

From Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Persian نارنگ (nârang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), itself of uncertain origin, possibly Dravidian. Compare Portuguese laranja, Spanish naranja, English orange.


laranxa

Es a millor laranxa que saliu do laranxeiro.

You are the best orange that came out of the orange grove.


alcaparra

From Mozarabic, from Arabic كَبَّار (kabbār) or Latin cappāris.


chícharo

[ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃɐɾʊ]

Borrowed from Mozarabic *číčar(o), from Latin cicer (“chickpea”). Compare Spanish chícharo.


viño

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vỹo, viño, vinno, from Latin vīnum. Compare Portuguese vinho, Fala viñu, and Spanish vino.

inh+

Dixo aquel rapaz que non era menos o viño que a ágoa, que era máis eu creo.


beterraba

From Latin bēta (“beet”) + rapa (“turnip”).


froito

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin fructus. Compare Portuguese fruito and borrowed Portuguese fruto.


pexegueiro

Attested since the 14th century (presegeiro). From pexego + -eiro.


pexego

Attested since the 13th century (prexego, prexigo); from Latin persicum (“peach”), ellipsis of persicum pōmum (“Persian fruit”). Cognate with Portuguese pêssego.

non daredes de prexegos, nen de figos


cabaciña

bug, true bug (an insect of the order Hemiptera)


cirola

Probably a late borrowing from Leonese; from Late Latin cēreŏla, an abbreviation of pruna cēreola ("wax-colored plums"), from the feminine of Latin cereolus; see cera.


amorodo

Uncertain. Given the related forms morango, morogo, morote and the cognates, Portuguese morango and Asturian meruéndano, then probably from a substrate language *morotanu.

strawberry (the fruit), either wild or grown


durián

From English durian, from Malay durian, from Proto-Malayic *duri-an, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi-an.


mazá

From Old Galician-Portuguese maçãa, from Vulgar Latin māla (“apples”) mattiana (“of Mattium”), though some theorize that mattiana was an Iberian pronunciation of the Gallo-Roman word matianium, a golden apple named after Gaius Matius, a horticulturist and friend of Caesar.

Ay espada moy fremosa, que nũca foy suzia nẽ ferrugeẽta, mais sempre foy fremosa et clara et cõueniuele d'ancho et de longo, mais forte et mais firme ca toda las outras, o mãgo tẽes d'almasi moy brãquo et feicto en gisa de cruz, cõ moy fremosa arrays dourada et cõ moy boa maçãa dourada de beril no magarõ.

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: CSIC, page 136:

Oh, sword which is very beauty, which has never been dirty or rusty but was always beauty and clear and appropriate in its width and in its length; stronger and firmer than the rest; your hilt is of the whitest ivory, made in the form of the cross, with a very beauty golden handle, and an excellent golden knob of beryl in the end


froita

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese fruita (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin fructa, from Latin fructus. Cognate with Portuguese fruta and Spanish fruta.

dar cada ano I quarteiro de froyta seca, meas castanas et meas nozes

1270, M. Romaní Martinez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310):

to give each year a quarter of dry fruit [nuts], half of chestnuts and half of walnuts

da froita de Ledime [...] dian dela quarta parte salvo prepigos e cereijas

1292, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Dominguez (eds.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Publicacións de Caixa Galicia, page 439

of the fruit of Ledime … they should give a fourth, except peaches and cherries


cabaza

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from an earlier *calabaça, probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calapaccia. Cognate with Portuguese cabaça, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.

et por las casas et outras cousas daredes cada ano a min et ao abade do dito moesteiro por razon de forros, huun par de bõõs capoos et huna cabaaça de vino por dia de san Martino.

1380, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 512:

and you'll give yearly to me and to the abbot of said monastery, for the rent of the houses and the other things, a pair of good capons and a gourd of wine, the day of Saint Martin

cured gourd used traditionally in Galicia as a container for liquids


cereixa

From Old Galician-Portuguese cereyja, cereija (compare Portuguese cereja), from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.
Cognate with Portuguese cereja and Spanish cereza.


ervella

oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas

1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

eight fanegas of legumes, both beans and peas

Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual


pemento

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pimento, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment, colour”). Doublet of pigmento. Cognate with Portuguese pimento.

inh+

Os ingredientes do "polbo á feira" son: polvo, sal, aceite e pemento.
The ingredients of "polbo á feira" are: octopus, salt, olive oil and paprika.


belota

From Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic بَلُّوطَة (ballūṭa), from Aramaic בְּלוּטָא / ܒܠܘܛܐ (bəllūṭā, ballūṭā, “oak; acorn”). Compare Portuguese bolota and Spanish bellota.

der

Aramaic בְּלוּטָא


morote

Uncertain. Given the related forms morango, morodo, morogo and the cognates, Portuguese morango and Asturian meruéndano, then probably from a substrate language *morotanu.


landra

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin glāndula (“little acorn; tonsil”), or from Vulgar Latin glandinem, from Latin glāns (“acorn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂- (“acorn”). Doublet of glande or glándula. Compare also Spanish landre.


leituga

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin lactūca.

Hypochaeris radicata
Wikispecies:Hypochaeris radicata

Lactuca serriola
Wikispecies:Lactuca serriola


abelá

From Old Galician-Portuguese avelãa, from Latin abellana (“filbert, hazelnut”), from nux abellana ("nut from Avella"), from Abella (Avella, a city in the Campania region of Italy). Cognate with Portuguese avelã and Spanish avellana.

abelá:

duas cruses vnna blanca et vnna auelaa

1321, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 119:

(countable and uncountable) hazel (a greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut)


carabuña

Unknown. Attested since circa 1539; perhaps from Latin *clavucula, from clavus.

stone or pit of peaches, nectarines, cherries and similar fruits


garavanzo

[ɡɑ.ɾaˈβ̞an̪.θʊ]

[ɡɑ.ɾaˈβ̞an̪.θʊ]

[ħɑ.ɾaˈβ̞an̪.θʊ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese garvanço, from ervanço, from an Indo-European substrate language (Proto-Germanic *arwīts (“pea”), Latin ervum (“vetch”)) and ultimately possibly a Mediterranean borrowing cognate with Ancient Greek ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos).
Cognate with dialectal Portuguese ervanço, Spanish garbanzo.


feixón

From Old Galician-Portuguese feijoo, from Latin phaseolus, probably from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos). Compare Ladino fijon, Portuguese feijão and Spanish frejol.


orxo

From Old Galician-Portuguese orjo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin hordeum (“barley”).

de quanto centeo e auea e orjo labraren en ese Regengo ha de auer o arcobispo ou seu mayordomo a meadad despois que os labradores tomaren o seu dereito

1331, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 542:

of all the rye, oat and barley that they would grow in this crown's possession, the archbishop or his steward must have half of it, after the laborers have taken their parts


cogombro

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (“cucumber”).


farelo

From Vulgar Latin *farellum, from Latin far (“spelt”). Cognate with Portuguese farelo and Asturian fariellu.

bran (the broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain)


brócoli

Borrowed from Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo, from brocco (“shoot, sprout”).


améndoa

Attested since c 1409. From Vulgar Latin *amandula, *amyndula, from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē), of pre-Greek origin. Doublet of amígdala and mandorla.
Cognate with Portuguese amêndoa and Spanish almendra.

que se faz na boca do Cauallo hũa enfirmidade de jnchaço ou de llandooas llongas en maneira de amendooas que apertan de dentro as qeixadas tanto que o cauallo non pode comer, et aas uezes jnchase toda a boca et o paadal tanto que adur pode comer

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 113:

that is made in the mouth of the horse a disease of swelling or of long glands, in the manner of almonds, that tighten from the inside the horse's jaws, so much that the horse can't even eat, and sometimes all the mouth and the palate swell so much that hardly can he eat


tortilla española

gl-noun

tortilla española f (plural tortillas españolas)


berenxena

Etymology tree
Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtVder.
Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa)bor.
Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān)bor.
Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān)bor.
Old Galician-Portuguese berengenha
Galician berenxenaInherited from Old Galician-Portuguese berengenha, borrowed from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), borrowed from Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān), borrowed from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa), from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV. Compare Portuguese beringela and Spanish berenjena.


melga

Unknown. Perhaps from Latin merga (“two-pronged fork”), because of its two characteristic spines. Cognate with Spanish mielga.

Squalus acanthias
Squalus acanthias#Translingual


bagazo

From baga (“berry”) + -azo. Compare Portuguese bagaço and Spanish bagazo.

pomace, marc (grape pulp and residues after being pressed)


tortilla de patacas

gl-noun

tortilla de patacas f (plural tortillas de patacas)


fiúncho

From Old Galician-Portuguese feuncho, from Latin fēnuculum (“fennel”), a diminutive of Latin fēnum (“hay”). Cognate with Portuguese funcho and Spanish hinojo.

depois dalle a comer Cousas caentes asy como trigo, feeo, espelqa ou melga, et dalle a beber agooa caente con vino et con semente de feuncho en booa cuentidade.

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 91:

then feed him with warm things as wheat, hay, spelt, and give him warm water with wine and with seeds of fennel in good quantity

Foeniculum vulgare
Foeniculum vulgare#Translingual


carozo

Probably from Vulgar Latin *carudium, from Ancient Greek καρύδιον (karúdion), from κάρυον (káruon, “nut”); alternatively, from a substrate language: compare carolo and carocha. Cognate with Portuguese caroço.


nabiza

From nabo, from Latin nāpus (“turnip”), and the suffix -izo. Cognate with Portuguese nabiça.

Non como verzas con unto, nin nabizas con aceite, pra min non hai cousa boa, tamén me fai mal o leite

c. 1790, Domingo Blanco, editor, A poesía popular en Galicia 1745-1885., Vigo: Xerais, page 138:

I don't eat greens with lard, nor turnip greens with olive oil; there's nothing good for me: even milk makes me feel sick

(botany, cooking) young turnip greens (Brassica rapa)


abruñeiro

From Latin prūnus (“plum tree”), probably under the influence of Proto-Celtic *agrinyos (“sloe”).

Prunus spinosa
Prunus spinosa#Translingual

Brill Publishers
De Gruyter
gl:abruñeiro


paínzo

From Old Galician-Portuguese *paĩço (Old Galician-Portuguese painço, peinço), from Late Latin pānīcium, from Latin pānīcum, from pānus (“ear of millet”). Cognate with Portuguese painço and Spanish panizo.

Et ualia a liura do trijgo en graao hũu marauedi et medeo, et da ceuada hũu morauedi et oitaua, et do painço hũu morauedi meos quarta

1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 529:

And a pound of wheat worthed a maravedi and a half, and of barley a maravedi and an octave, and of millet a maravedi minus a quarter

millet, foxtail millet; any grass in the genus Panicum


xoio

From Vulgar Latin *joju, from Latin lolium. Cognate with Portuguese joio, Spanish joyo.

darnel (cereal weed usually considered harmful)


centeo

From Old Galician-Portuguese centẽo, from Latin centēnus (“a hundred things”), from centum (“a hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Portuguese centeio, Spanish centeno.

duas tercias de centeo et ha hua de serodeo et hun sesteiro de triigo

1269, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 928:

two thirds of rye and one of late cereal and a sixth of wheat


brancellao

From an older *baroncellão ("from the territory of Baroncelle"), from Medieval Latin Baroncelli, an ancient county or territory corresponding to the high valley of the river Támega in Galicia. Baroncelli itself is the genitive singular of the local medieval personal name Baroncellus.

Repinicáde o pandeiro,
Nenas dos portos de mar;
Para tocálo Rianxo
E a Avia para bailar.
O Miño tempére a gaita,
Anque marre o brencellau;
E mais que non quede pinga,
Xarro tras xarro e brindár.
Os barrosos e pardiños,
Xuro a brios, que an de danzar,
Sin que o estorven as cadrillas
Dos valentes Roquetaus.

Ring your tambourine,
girls from the sea harbours;
[best] at playing it, Rianxo;
the land of Avia, at dancing.
Let the Miño tune the bagpipe,
even if the brancellao wine is not enough;
Do not leave a drop,
pitcher after pitcher and toast.
Highlanders and lowlanders,
I swear they ought to dance,
no fault on the teams
of the valiant people of Lemos.

monovarietal wine produced with that grape


caíño

caíño m (plural caíños, feminine caíña, feminine plural caíñas)

caíños (plural)
caíña (feminine)
caíñas (feminine plural)

From Latin canīnus (“canine”). Cognate with Portuguese cainho.

Brancellao e Caíño, os pais do viño
Brancellao and Caíño [grapes are] the wine's parents (proverb)

one of several autochthonous Galician varieties of grape which produce wines with high acidity


rabiza

From rabo (“turnip; tail”), and the suffix -izo.


milgranda

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese milgrãada, from Latin mālogrānātum, possibly influenced by mille-grana (“thousand seeds”). Cognate with Portuguese milgrada; cf. also Catalan magrana.

Punica granatum
Punica granatum#Translingual


froita seca

to give each year a quarter of nuts, half of it of chestnuts and half of it of walnuts


fiuncho do mar

fiuncho do mar m (plural fiunchos do mar)

Crithmum maritimum
Crithmum maritimum#Translingual


perixel

From Old Occitan pere(i)ssil, from Latin petroselinum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλινον (petrosélinon), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone”) + σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”).

der

πετροσέλινον

parsley (a herb native to the Mediterranean whose leaves are often in cooking)


fabaca

From faba (“bean”) (compare also ervellaca, from ervella, "pea").


ervellaca

From ervella (“pea”) (compare also fabaca, from faba, "bean"). Cognate with Portuguese ervilhaca.


albariño

[ɑl.β̞aˈɾi.ɲʊ]

a variety of white wine grape grown in Galicia


baloca

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language, but ultimately from Proto-Indo-European. Compare English ball or Latin bulla.


castaña da terra

gl-noun

castaña da terra f (plural castañas da terra)

From castaña (“chestnut”) + da (“of the”) + terra (“soil; earth”).


bagaña

From baga (“berry”) + -aña. Compare Sicilian vajana.


canafrecha

Perhaps from Latin canna fistula. Cognate with Spanish cañaheja.

Ferula communis
Ferula communis#Translingual


cerollo

From Medieval Latin ceruleum (“plum”). Compare Spanish ciruela.


pirixel

From Old Galician-Portuguese perrexil, from Old Occitan pere(i)ssil, from Latin petroselinum, from Ancient Greek πετροσέλινον (petrosélinon), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone”) + σέλινον (sélinon, “celery”). Compare Portuguese perrexil and Spanish perejil.

der

πετροσέλινον

parsley (a herb native to the Mediterranean whose leaves are often used in cooking)


perexil

πετροσέλινον


espiñaca

From Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian اسپناخ (espanâx). Compare Spanish espinaca.

Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ)


lentella

From Old Galician-Portuguese lentilla (compare Portuguese lentilha), from Vulgar Latin *lenticla (compare Spanish lenteja, Catalan llentilla), from syncopation of Latin lenticula (“lentil”), diminutive of lēns (“lentil bean”).

Lens culinaris
Lens culinaris#Translingual


cogombro do demo

gl-noun

cogombro do demo m (plural cogombros do demo)

From cogombro do demo (“devil's cucumber”).

Ecballium elaterium
Ecballium elaterium#Translingual

squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium)


poexo

Attested since circa 1750. From Latin pūlegium. Cognate with Portuguese poejo, Spanish poleo.

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium#Translingual


carvea

Ultimately probably from Arabic كَرَاوِيَا (karāwiyā), via Aramaic from Ancient Greek καρώ (karṓ), κάρον (káron, “caraway”).


cebadeira

[θeβaˈðejɾɐ]


pé de boi

[ˈpɛ ðeˈβɔi̯]

Oenanthe crocata
Wikispecies:Oenanthe crocata

hemlock water dropwort (Oenanthe crocata)


cantroxo

Attested since circa 1750. Related to Spanish cantueso, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *chamaetusius, from Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí, “on the earth, ground”) θύος (thúos, “burnt offering”), meaning "incense of the earth"

der

Lavandula stoechas
Lavandula stoechas#Translingual


azaí

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese açaí, borrowed from Nheengatu wasaí.


codorno

kind of winter pear with the likeness of an apple which is usually inedible except when cooked