xabón

xabóns (plural)
xabrón (alternative)
xabom (alternative)
sabom (alternative)

Under the influence of xabre, from Old Galician-Portuguese sabon (att. circa 1409), from Latin sāpōnem, accusative singular of sāpō, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ. Cognate with Asturian xabón, Portuguese sabão, Spanish jabón.


fía

(historical) evening meeting for spinning and socializing


conxugación

conxugacións (plural)
conjugaçom (alternative)
conjugação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin coniugātiō.

(grammar, biology, chemistry) conjugation


garaxe

Descenderon directamente ao garaxe.


feroés

gl-noun

feroés m (plural feroeses, feminine feroesa, feminine plural feroesas)

feroeses (plural)
feroesa (feminine)
feroesas (feminine plural)
feroês (alternative)


xaponés

xaponés m (plural xaponeses, feminine xaponesa, feminine plural xaponesas)

xaponeses (plural)
xaponesa (feminine)
xaponesas (feminine plural)
japonês (alternative)


cona

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cono m (13th century), from Latin cunnus m. Compare Portuguese cona f.


alcaparra

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


batán

batáns (plural)
batám (alternative)
batão (alternative)

Borrowed from Spanish batán, probably from Andalusian Arabic بَاطَان (baṭán), from Arabic بِطَانَة (biṭāna, “liner, lining”).


tolo

gl-noun

tolo m (plural tolos, feminine tola, feminine plural tolas)

tolos (plural)
tola (feminine)
tolas (feminine plural)

Unknown. Perhaps from *tollo, from *toldo, from Vulgar Latin *tollĭtus (“removed”). First attested in 1594.


erudito

erudito m (plural eruditos, feminine erudita, feminine plural eruditas)

eruditos (plural)
erudita (feminine)
eruditas (feminine plural)


exacerbación

exacerbacións (plural)
exacerbaçom (alternative)
exacerbação (alternative)


suxeito

From Old Galician-Portuguese sogeito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin subiectus. Compare Spanish sujeto and Portuguese sujeito.


vibración

vibracións (plural)
vibraçom (alternative)
vibração (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin vibrātiōnem.


xarxa

From Latin salvia. Cognate with Spanish salvia, English sage.

Salvia officinalis
Salvia officinalis#Translingual

(uncountable) sage (the plant Salvia officinalis), sagebrush


albergue

[ɑlˈβ̞ɛɾ.ɣ̞ɪ]

[ɑlˈβ̞ɛɾ.ɣ̞ɪ]

[ɑlˈβ̞ɛɾ.ħɪ]

Attested in local Latin documents since the 12th century (albergaría since the 11th century). From Old Galician-Portuguese albergue, perhaps from Old Occitan albergue, from Gothic *𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐍉 (*haribairgō), from 𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌹𐍃 (harjis) ("army") and 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌰𐌽 (bairgan) ("to lodge"). Compare German Herberge and French auberge.

hostel, lodging (temporary lodging place)


praza

From Old Galician-Portuguese praça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned term from Vulgar Latin *plattea, from platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα (plateîa) ὁδός (hodós, “broad way”). Cognate with Portuguese praça and Spanish plaza.


transbordador

gl-noun

transbordador m (plural transbordadores)


fagocito

fagocitos (plural)
fagócito (alternative)


macizo

macizos (plural)
mocizo (alternative)
mociço (alternative)
maciço (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese maciço, from Vulgar Latin *massīcius. By surface analysis, masa + -izo.


feito

From Old Galician-Portuguese feito, from Latin factum. Cognate with Portuguese feito and Spanish hecho.

Ilustre Afonso, me mandan / Que en vinte copras galegas / Diga si vos debe a Patria / Máis que vós debés a ela / Eu non sei por onde empece / Nomear vosas grandezas / Vosos feitos, vosas obras

1697, several authors, Fiestas Minervales, Santiago: Antonio Frayz, page 34:

Illustrious Afonso, they command me to tell, in twenty Galician couplets, if the Fatherland owes you more than you owes the Fatherland, and I don't know where to start naming your greatness, your feats and works

Se alguun omne este meu feyto quiser tentar ou romper, seya maldito e excomulgado

1250, A. Martínez Salazar, editor, Documentos gallegos de los siglos XIII al XVI, A Coruña: Casa de la Misericordia, page 20:

If anyone this, my deed, would want to test or break, he shall be damned and excommunicated


faría

(Galician-Asturian) Alternative form of fariña


fratricida

fratricida m or f by sense (plural fratricidas)


guerra civil

[ˈɡɛ.rɐ θiˈβ̞iɫ]

[ˈɡɛ.rɐ θiˈβ̞iɫ]

[ˈħɛ.rɐ θiˈβ̞iɫ]

[ˈħɛ.rɐ siˈβ̞iɫ]


mantido

mantido m (plural mantidos, feminine mantida, feminine plural mantidas)

mantidos (plural)
mantida (feminine)
mantidas (feminine plural)


antiterrorismo

antiterrorismo m (plural antiterrorismos)


chancho

(informal) nibble, bite (a piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting)


carnicería

carnicerías (plural)
carnizaría (alternative)
carniçaria (alternative)

First attested in the 13th century (carniçaria). From carnaza + -aría / -ería.


costura

From Old Galician-Portuguese costura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cōnsūtūra, from Latin cōnsūtus, from consuō.

a pẽna do mãto mays preçada et mays marauillosa era que outra que nũca home uisse, ca ela era en ssy enteyra, que en ela toda nõ auj́a peça nẽ costura.

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica Troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

the mantle's hide was more precious and marvelous than any other that anyone had ever seen, because it was in itself whole, having no pieces or stiches


damasceno

damasceno m (plural damascenos, feminine damascena, feminine plural damascenas)

damascenos (plural)
damascena (feminine)
damascenas (feminine plural)


nadador

nadador m (plural nadadores, feminine nadadora, feminine plural nadadoras)

nadadores (plural)
nadadora (feminine)
nadadoras (feminine plural)

From Latin natātor, natātōrem (“swimmer”).


tarso

(anatomy) tarsal (any bone of the ankle)


raña

Uncertain. From the same origin of rañar, Spanish arañar and Portuguese arranhar.
Starting with the sense of "mange" or "scabies", more likely from Latin arānea (“spiderweb”), and thus a doublet of araña. Compare Romanian râie (“mange, scabies”), also Portuguese ronha, Spanish roña, Catalan ronya, French rogne, Italian rogna, all with the same meaning and derived from a related Vulgar Latin root *aronea or *ronea. Alternatively, possibly derived from the verb rañar.


raño

Back-formation from rañar (“to scratch”).

back-formation

(fishing) tool made of a long shaft and a pronged basket, used for capturing clams and other mollusks


brinca

From brinco (“ring, earring”), probably from Latin vinculum.


brinco

14th century. Probably a half learned word, from Latin vinculum. Doublet of vinco and vínculo.

Costança de Monterrey deu querella que lle tomaran o dito mudo et o castellaao hun brinco de prata da orella, en este dia, en Sesnande

1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 330:

Constance of Monterrei reported that the aforementioned mute and the Castilian took a silver earring from her ear, in this day, in Sesnande


asasino

gl-noun

asasino m (plural asasinos, feminine asasina, feminine plural asasinas)

asasinos (plural)
asasina (feminine)
asasinas (feminine plural)


goberno

[ɡoˈβ̞ɛɾ.nʊ]

[ɡoˈβ̞ɛɾ.nʊ]

[ħoˈβ̞ɛɾ.nʊ]

government (body with power to make laws)


bica

a local variety of sponge cake made with clarified butter, eggs, flour and sugar


bico

From Old Galician-Portuguese bico (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); either from Latin beccus from Gaulish *beccos (“chicken beak”) interfered by picar, or directly from Paleo-Hispanic; ultimately from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“hook”).

-Ai que rico mazarico! / quen che deu tamaño bico? / -Deumo Deus e meus pecados, / que non os teño ben purgados

-So cute, curlew! Who gave you such a beak? -God gave it to me, and my sins, because they are not well purged

Meniña, se che pesou / polos bicos que me deches, / devólveme os que che eu dei / e dareiche os que me deches

Baby, if you feel remorse because of the kisses you gave me, then give me back the ones I gave you, that I'll give you back the ones that you gave me

Salirán cando volvades,
Para traervos en trunfo
Con gaitas e con ferreñas,
Todal as Mozas de rumbo.
Veredes como se botan
Todal as Vellas de bruzos
Para darvos moitos bicos
Por pés, por pernas, e muslos.

1808, anonymous author, Un labrador que foi sarxento:

They'll come out on your return, [from war]
for bringing you in triumph
with bagpipes and jingles,
all the girls along the way
You'll see how
all the old ladies lie face down
To give many kisses
on your feet, legs and thighs

deralle cõ aquela seeta por la queixada seestra e foralle por medeo da cabe[ç]a, et o biquo dela foralle ferir ẽna nariz.

1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: CSIC, page 1:

he hit the arrow on his left jaw, it went through the middle of the head, and the tip of it just hurt him in the nose

nisto outro golpe de mar beu, é deu á popa un bico

1777, anonymous author, Romance da Urca de Santo Antón:

then another large wave came along, and it give the poop a blow

highest point (of a hill, stairways, etc)


fito

From Old Galician-Portuguese fito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from fitar or directly from Latin fīctus (“fixed”) from fīgo (“I fix”).

aim, target; point towards the sight is directed


xunta

From Old Galician-Portuguese junta, from Latin iūnctus.


parro

Onomatopoeic. Cognate with Mirandese parro (“duck”).


navío

From Old Galician-Portuguese navio, from Latin nāvigium.

cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.

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

a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight bushels of legume, beans and peas; and two iron bushels of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 sails of ships that he had pawned for 600 mor.

Et os que ende poderõ escapar daquela queyma fugirõ cõ algũus dos seus navios, et escaparõ fogindo pelo mar.

c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 13:

And the ones that could escape of said burning fled away with some of their ships, and got out fleeing by the sea

eu, Rui Gonçalves de Covas, mariñeiro, mestre et señor que soo do navio trincado, que Deus salve, que disen por nome San Marquo

1433, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 53

I, Roi González de Covas, sailor, master and lord of the clinker ship named San Marcos, God protects it


seña

Attested since the 14th century, from Latin signa, from signum, of Proto-Indo-European origin. Doublet of sino, seño, and signo. Cognate of Portuguese senha, Spanish seña, English sign.


mordomo

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin maior domūs (“steward”), from Latin maior (“main, principal”) + genitive singular of domus (“household”). Cognate with Portuguese mordomo and Spanish mayordomo.

Fernando Eanes, mordomo do couto de San Fis

1339, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 281:

Fernando Eanes, steward of the fiefdom of San Fis


detonación

detonacións (plural)
detonaçom (alternative)
detonação (alternative)


faraón

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin Pharaō.


psicólogo

psicólogo m (plural psicólogos, feminine psicóloga, feminine plural psicólogas)

psicólogos (plural)
psicóloga (feminine)
psicólogas (feminine plural)

psychologist (expert in the field of psychology)


laxa

laxas (plural)
laixa (alternative)
las (alternative)
laxe (alternative)

→ Spanish: laja

From the medieval form lagea, previously documented in local Medieval Latin as lagena; from a substrate language; probably from Proto-Celtic *laginā (“blade”). Compare Welsh llain (“blade, sword, spear”) and Old Irish láige (“mattock, spade; broad spearhead”).


tunda

Attested since 1671. Back-formation from tundir.

cosais co'esta tunda aqueibaran, enon seran ousados de vir por lan, è volber trasquilados

1671, Gabriel Feixoo de Araúxo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:

perhaps with this beating they will settle down, and they will not dare to come for wool and return shorn


zurro

zurros (plural)
zudre (alternative)
xurro (alternative)

Unknown, but probably from Paleo-Hispanic; related to Portuguese enxurro and Portuguese enxurrada (“flash flood”), Portuguese surro (“dirt”), and Spanish churre (“grime”). Also related to several current places named Xudres and Zudres, in local Medieval Latin Scudris, Sudris and Xudris.

unk

Unknown


urda

Coordinate term: trama


xoga

(anatomy) ham (The region back of the knee joint)


xogo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese jogo, from Latin jocus, iocus. Compare Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego.

inh+

que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa

1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:

they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous


mentirán

gl-noun

mentirán m (plural mentiráns, feminine mentirana, feminine plural mentiranas)

mentiráns (plural)
mentirana (feminine)
mentiranas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mentiral (“liar”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), with change of suffix to -án.

inh+

[mẽn̪.t̪iˈɾɑŋ]


multiculturalismo

gl-noun

multiculturalismo m (plural multiculturalismos)

multiculturalism (promotion of a society with cultures)


custa

From Old Galician-Portuguese custa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), back-formation from custar.

(law, in the plural) costs, legal expenses


coñecido

coñecido m (plural coñecidos, feminine coñecida, feminine plural coñecidas)

coñecidos (plural)
coñecida (feminine)
coñecidas (feminine plural)


esquezo

esquezos (plural)
esquenzo (alternative)


cocido

(cooking) traditional dish composed of boiled potatoes, peas, beans, chestnuts, greens and pork and beef meats


pazo

pazos (plural)
pacio (alternative)
paço (alternative)

→ Spanish: pazo

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese paaço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin palātium (“palace”). Doublet of palacio.

aquel meu parente ou parenta de terra de lugo e val de quiroga que ao tenpo for erdeiro de aquel paazo vedraño de lousada

1473, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 32:

that relative, man or woman, from the lands of Lugo and Valley of Quiroga that at that time was inheritor of that ancient manor of Lousada

mansion; residence of a noble family (more or less, equivalent to a British manor house)


saudita

saudita m or f by sense (plural sauditas)


fío

From Old Galician-Portuguese fio (13th c., Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin fīlum. Compare Portuguese fio and Spanish hilo.

vay todo escripto en hua cobra et man de papel et cosido con fio branco de linno

1405, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega:

all of it is written in a paragraph and a hand of paper, and sewn with white linen thread

edge (thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument)


cío

From Late Latin zelus (“jealousy”), from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-.


esquía

From Latin squilla (“shrimp”), from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla).


pía

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pīla (“mortar”). Cognate with Portuguese pia and Spanish pila.

Et, el estando en Almaria, hũu mouro, seu priuado, que auja nume Abenaramamj̃, conuidoo et enbeuedoo et afogoo en hũa pia de agua que tĩjna en sua casa

c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 806:

And, while in Almeria, a Moor, his man, who was called Abenaramamin, invited him and made him drunk and drowned him in a water basin he had at his house


pía

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“pillar”). Cognate with Portuguese pilha and Spanish pila.


atavío

que paredes o dito moyno et o refaçades cada que mester for et o mantenades d'aqueles atabios que lle foren mester

1396, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, IV, page 456

you shall repair said mill and remake it every time it is needed and you shall maintain it of those works that could be needed


porfía

From Old Galician-Portuguese perfia, from Latin perfidia (“faithlessness, dishonesty, treachery, falsehood, perfidy”).

inh

argument, quarrel, especially when no part is willing to yield


ácido desoxirribonucleico

gl-noun

ácido desoxirribonucleico m (plural ácidos desoxirribonucleicos)

deoxyribonucleic acid
deoxyribonucleic acid

(biochemistry) deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA


nadal

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese nadal, from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”).


cazo

Unknown. Perhaps from Late Latin cattia.


choca

From Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”): compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog.

dous fouçiños, e hun legon, e hun sacho, e hun escoupere, e hua eyxola grande, e hua serra de mao, e outra eyxola de peto, e tres fouçes, e duas choquas

1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:

two small sickles, a hoe, a mattock, a chisel, a large axe, a handsaw, a hatchet, three large sickles, and two cowbells


penetración

penetracións (plural)
penetraçom (alternative)
penetração (alternative)


aproximación

aproximacións (plural)
aproximação (alternative)
aproximaçom (alternative)


facho

From facha, from Vulgar Latin *fascula, from facula (“small torch”) crossed with fascis (“bundle”). Compare Portuguese facho.

(dated) beacon usually placed atop mountains and hills, and used to warn the locals of the proximity of an enemy


nádega

Attested since circa 1350. From Late Latin natica, an adjectival term based on Latin natis (“rump, buttock”). Cognate with Portuguese nádega and Spanish nalga.

Et ãbos aviã os cabelos bõos et longos et que lles dauã [per] las nadegas.

c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 92

Both of them had long good hair, long to the buttocks

(anatomy, usually in the plural) buttock


iconoclasta

gl-noun

iconoclasta m or f by sense (plural iconoclastas)

From Medieval Latin īconoclasta, from Ancient Greek εἰκονοκλάστης (eikonoklástēs, “breaker of images”).

der

εἰκονοκλάστης


marisco

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from mar (“sea”) + -isco. Cognate with Portuguese and Spanish marisco.

Moito che me sabe o marisco!

(countable or uncountable) seafood, especially when referring to edible crabs and shellfish


colado

Probably from Latin collis (“hill”) + -ado, or possibly from a Latin collis latus. Compare Spanish collado.


colado

Either from Latin collis (“hill”) or from con- + lātus (“side”).

hedge or strip of land between two adjacent farm plots, which is usually left fallow


mamaie

mamaies (plural)
ma (alternative)
mamá (alternative)
mamai (alternative)
mamaíña (alternative)
nanai (alternative)


perdición

perdicións (plural)
perdiçom (alternative)
perdição (alternative)


detonador

detonator (device used to detonate an explosive device)

(figurative) trigger, cause (an event that initiates others, or incites a response)


comarca

From Old Galician-Portuguese comarca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back-formation from comarcar (“to share limits”), from co- (“with”) + marcar (“to delimit”), from marco (“boundary stone”), attested since the 9th century in local Latin documents, as well as its derivatives marcar and demarcar (“to delimit”).
Given its early local documentation it can not be a borrowing from Old Italian, but from Gothic or Suevic [Term?] instead. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary, region”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“boundary, border”).
Compare Sicilian cumarca.

e que nos diades mays uos e todas uosas uozes para senpre de cada hun anos hun porco chamoscado, que seja sen maliça, con pan e con vino, segundo huso e costume da comarca

1391, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 106:

and you and your successors shall give us, each year and forever, a singed pork, free of any malice, with bread and wine, as it is customary in the shire

a district, province or territory; a shire


xenro

gl-noun

xenro m (plural xenros, feminine nora, feminine plural noras)

xenros (plural)
nora (feminine)
noras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese genrro (“son-in-law”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin gener, generum (“son-in-law”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵm̥ros, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵem-. Cognate with Portuguese genro, Spanish yerno.


remela

Unknown. Perhaps a diminutive of rama (“twig”), or either a prefixed form from mela (“dent, scratch”); in that case, cognate with Old Spanish rezmilla (“glans penis”).

rheum; sleep (substance found in the corner of the eyes)


albergaría

albergarías (plural)
alberguería (alternative)

[alβɛɾɣaˈɾiɐ]

Attested in local Latin documents since the 11th century. From albergue (“inn”) + -aría.

(historical) hostel (a refuge for the homeless or sick providing a bed and sometimes food)


faca

Unknown. Probably not from Latin falx, from which originates fouce (“sickle”).


faca

From Old French haque, from Middle English hack, from Hackney, a borough of London famous for its horses. Cognate with Spanish jaca.

Iten, que furtara a faqa a Pero Gayo da sua casa, que está á par da vila de Ribadauia, da casa que está á par da ponte, et que lla furtara con a sella e con o freo et que fora despois por ela preso ena Cruña

1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:

Item, that he stole the mare of Pedro Gaio, from his house that is near the town of Ribadavia, by the bridge; and that he stole her with saddle and bridle, and that later he was captured because of her in A Coruña


anión

anións (plural)
aniom (alternative)
anião (alternative)


almanaque

From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic اَلْمَنَاخ (al-manāḵ, “climate”), from Late Ancient Greek ἀλμενιχιακά (almenikhiaká, “calendar”), probably ultimately of Coptic origin. See almanac for more.


dala

Cognate of French dalle (“slab”), probably from Old French rather than from Suevic or Gothic, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *daljō (“dell”), from *dalą (“valley”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰel- (“an arch, vaulting, curve, curvature, cavity”).

installation or instrument constituted by a slab of stone or of wood, usually positioned in a slope and provided with drainage; used for doing laundry


farra

Unknown. Compare Portuguese farra and Spanish farra.


parranda

Probably a derivation of the synonym farra. Attested at least since 1858.

Cando vaias de parranda / non te esquezas do caneco / bótalle un litro de viño / non che vaia quedar seco

Whenever you go in a spree / don't forget about your pitcher / put a litre of wine in it / lest it be dry


milenio

Learned borrowing from Latin mīllennium.

A principios deste milenio, a tecnoloxía avanzou de xeitos sorprendentes, transformando completamente a nosa forma de vivir.

At the beginning of this millennium, technology advanced in surprising ways, completely transforming the way we live.


astucia

astucias (plural)
astrucia (alternative)
estrucia (alternative)

Attested since 1807. From Latin astūtia.


cercado

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cercado.

inh+

palisade, stockade, and its enclosed area


tranca

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *taranca (compare Old French taranche (“big iron pin”)), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *tarankyos (“nail”) (compare Middle Irish tairnge (“iron nail”)), Proto-Celtic *tarankyos (“nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, rub”).


bulló

bullós (plural)
bulhó (alternative)
billó (alternative)

Unknown. Probably a diminutive (-ó) from a back formation from bullar (“to shell, peel”).


topete

From Old Galician-Portuguese topete (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French toupet (“tuft of hair on the top of the head”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest”).

der

tuft of hair on the top of the head; quiff


guinda

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wīksĭna (“type of cherry”), from *wiks (“mistletoe”). Compare French guigne, Italian visciola, Old Occitan guindola.

Prunus cerasus
Prunus cerasus#Translingual


empeña

Cognate with Portuguese empenha, Spanish empeine and French empeigne. Perhaps ultimately from Latin pecten (“comb”).


gago

gl-noun

gago m (plural gagos, feminine gaga, feminine plural gagas)

gagos (plural)
gaga (feminine)
gagas (feminine plural)


contracción

contraccións (plural)
contraçom (alternative)
contração (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin contractiōnem.


alteración

alteracións (plural)
alteraçom (alternative)
alteração (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin alterātiōnem.


modificación

modificacións (plural)
modificaçom (alternative)
modificação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin modificātiōnem.


verba

From Latin verbum, from Proto-Italic *werβom, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰh₁om (“word”).


bruxo

gl-noun

bruxo m (plural bruxos, feminine bruxa, feminine plural bruxas)

bruxos (plural)
bruxa (feminine)
bruxas (feminine plural)

Uncertain, possibly from Iberian/Celtiberian *bruxtia (compare Occitan bruèissa, Portuguese bruxa, Spanish bruja), from Proto-Celtic *brixtā (“spell, magic”) (compare Old Irish bricht (“charm”), Old Breton brith (“magic”)). It could instead be akin to a different Celtic word such as Old Irish Brigit (literally “high, exalted”).


elegancia

elegancias (plural)
elegância (alternative)


alcohólico

gl-noun

alcohólico m (plural alcohólicos, feminine alcohólica, feminine plural alcohólicas)

alcohólicos (plural)
alcohólica (feminine)
alcohólicas (feminine plural)
alcólico (alternative)
alcoólico (alternative)


centrista

centrista m or f by sense (plural centristas)


anticipación

Learned borrowing from Latin anticipātiōnem.


competición

competicións (plural)
competiçom (alternative)
competição (alternative)

Borrowed from Late Latin competitiōnem, from Latin competō.


colectivo

collective, group, association, union, guild


publicación

Learned borrowing from Latin pūblicātiōnem.


clasificación

standing, ranking (the position of a team in a league or of a player in a list)


cantón

1833, Florencio Pol, Espello de deputados, page 4 (in Ramón Mariño Paz (2008), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846.)

arriving there I found his house, which is just straight down the promenade, on the same floor I asked for the lord, but at the moment I saw him coming down

ó chegar á súa casa fun dar, que é indo polo cantón sin torcer, no mesmo andar pregunto polo Señor pro mui logo o vin baixar


conservador

gl-noun

conservador m (plural conservadores, feminine conservadora, feminine plural conservadoras)

conservadores (plural)
conservadora (feminine)
conservadoras (feminine plural)

conservative (one who favours the status quo)


sucesor

sucesor m (plural sucesores, feminine sucesora, feminine plural sucesoras)

sucesores (plural)
sucesora (feminine)
sucesoras (feminine plural)
sucessor (alternative)
socesor (alternative dated)

Attested since the 13th century. Learned borrowing from Latin successor.

daquel día endeant derõ a el cada ãno, et a todos seus suçesores, tres donzelas fremosas et de grã prez

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 653:

from that day on they gave him each year, and to all of his successors, three beauty damsels of great worth


demócrata

demócrata m or f by sense (plural demócratas)


admiración

admiracións (plural)
admiraçom (alternative)
admiração (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin admiratio, admirationem.


crida

Probably a derivative of Latin quirito (“I call”). Doublet of grito.

Sabean todos que seendo o conçello, justiça et homes bõos, regidores da çidade de Santiago juntados por crida de anafil, segundo que han de costume

1416, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 9

Everyone should know this, that being the council, sheriff and good men, mayors of the city of Santiago reunited by the cry of the trumpet, as it's their custom …


acha

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese acha (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin ascla, from Latin assula. Cognate with Portuguese acha.

Et alí ueeriades muytos ferros de muytas lanças agudas entrar per peytos et per adágaras et per uentres, et muytas lanças caer en achas et en tranções, et muytos escudos quebrantados, et moytas lorigas rrotas et desmalladas, et muytas espadas banadas en sange

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 613:

And you would have seen there many irons and many spears to enter in breasts and shields and bellies, and many spears to fell broken in chips and splinters, and many shields smashed down, and many coats broken and unmailed, and many swords bathed in blood

A acha tira pra racha (proverb)

1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:


subvención

subvencións (plural)
subvençom (alternative)
subvenção (alternative)

[s̺uβ̞.β̞en̪ˈθjoŋ]

[s̺uβ̞.β̞en̪ˈθjoŋ]


ungüento

ungüentos (plural)
unguento (alternative)
ingüento (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese enguento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“I smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”).

der

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, mixed and cooked and stirred till it becomes thick as an ointment


cuarta

(historical) Synonym of palmo, traditional unit of length


malestar

malestares (plural)
mal-estar (alternative)


discreción

discrecións (plural)
discriçom (alternative)
discrição (alternative)


indicación

Learned borrowing from Latin indicātiōnem.


perversión

perversións (plural)
perversom (alternative)
perversão (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin perversiōnem.


cosmopolita

gl-noun

cosmopolita m or f by sense (plural cosmopolitas)

From Ancient Greek κοσμοπολίτης (kosmopolítēs).

der

κοσμοπολίτης


demoscopia

From German Demoskopie, from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “sovereign people”) σκοπεῖν (skopeîn, “to look at”).


úvula

Borrowed from Late Latin ūvula (“small grape”), diminutive of Latin ūva.


agoiro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agoiro (13th c.), from Latin augurium. Cognate with Portuguese agoiro and Spanish agüero.

inh+

¿Jdes catar agoyro hu nõ jaz senõ mẽtira?

1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 247:

Are you going to see an omen where there is nothing but lies?


empregado

gl-noun

empregado m (plural empregados, feminine empregada, feminine plural empregadas)

empregados (plural)
empregada (feminine)
empregadas (feminine plural)

[em.pɾeˈɣ̞ɑ.ð̞ʊ]

[em.pɾeˈɣ̞ɑ.ð̞ʊ]

[…] os empregados non se deixan asoballar pola súa maldade, e o mesmo porteiro deprendeu a poñerlle cara de can. Somente Pedro é un manteiguiñas, incapaz de defenderse. A covardía do xefe cabalga na covardía de Pedro, para locí-las arroutadas que non é quen de descargar no lombo dos outros. Pedro sofre en silenzo; pero cóme-no as xenreiras, e non pode ollá-la cara daquel home sen desexarlle a morte.

1934, Castelao, Os dous de sempre, page 127:

[…] employees don't let him oppress them with his meanness, and even the doorman learnt to put an angry face for him. But Pedro is a poor thing, unable to defend himself. The boss' cowardice rides Pedro's, to show off the outbursts that he is incapable of discharging over other's shoulders. Pedro suffers in silence; but spite eats him, and he can't watch that man's face without wishing him death.


favo

From Old Galician-Portuguese favo, from Latin favus.


queijo

reintegrationist spelling of queixo (“cheese”)


dádiva

[ˈd̪a.ð̞i.β̞ɐ]

Attested since the 13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin datīva, plural of datīvum.


tesouro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tesouro, from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure; hoard”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “storehouse; treasure”).

der

treasure (collection of valuable things)

Demays lançaron lámeas trauesas grandes de ferro enna porta do dito thesouro con clauos que passauan da outra parte, en tal maneyra, que os enssarraron enno dito thesouro; et en todo aquel dia non les leixaron dar nen auer pan, nen vino, nen outra vianda nihua

1371, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 434:

And also they nailed large crossed iron plates on that treasury's door, with nails that pierced through the door, so that they were shut up in the mentioned treasury; and throughout that day they didn't let them have bread, nor wine, nor any other viand whatsoever

It. enna mia hucha que se no Tesouro I cinta de prata de pano de seda verde et outra cinta ancha de prata gornida de prata en coyro de lobo.

1375, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

Item: in my chest which in inside the treasury, a silver ribbon made of green silk cloth, and another ribbon embroidered in silver made of wolf's hide

nos daredes [...] dous mrs de dineiros brancos cada anno por día de Sam Johan Bautista ao tesouro

1346, Emilio Duro Peña, El Monasterio de S. Pedro de Rocas y su colección documental, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 189:

you'll give … [the value of] two maravedis in white coins each year, the day of Saint John Baptist, to the treasury [of our monastery]

(government, often capitalized) Treasury (department responsible for management of public revenue)


excomunión

excomunións (plural)
excomuñón (alternative)


foguete

Attested since circa 1750. Maybe from Spanish cohete (influenced by fogo (“fire”)), from Catalan coet, from Latin coda; or from fogo + -ete.

(colloquial, euphemistic, humorous) sexual intercourse


marxa

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark”), perhaps through Old French marcher ("to walk < *to mark with the feet").


marxa

From Old Galician-Portuguese margẽe, from Latin marginem, accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs. Alternatively, from or blended with a cognate of Spanish marjal, from Arabic.

Item ençima cabo do monte onde chaman, os Partidoyros, huna leyra de seys margêês de millo.

1436, Manuel Lucas Alvarez & M. José Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). (Edición diplomática). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 377

Item, up near the wilderness called Os Partidoiros, a field measuring six margêês of millet

Jtem máis, sete margas de herdade ẽna agra d'Estalle

1457, Fernando R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 163:

Item, seven marjas of property in the field of Estalle


murta

Attested since 1409. From Latin myrta (“myrtle”), from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”), from a Semitic root M-R-R meaning bitter.

myrtle (evergreen shrub of the genus Myrtus)


agraz

From Old Galician-Portuguese agraz (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *acraceum, from acer. Cognate with Portuguese agraço, Spanish agraz, Catalan agràs.


lais

From Old French lai (“song”), which have either a Germanic (compare Old High German leich, "a play, skit, melody, song") or Celtic origin (Old Irish laíd; see Scottish Gaelic laoidh).


enderezo

enderezos (plural)
endereço (alternative)

From enderezar, from Old Galician-Portuguese endereçar, from Vulgar Latin *indīrectiāre, ultimately from Latin dīrectus (“straight”).


onza

From Latin uncia (“unit, ¹⁄₁₂ Roman pound”). As an English unit, a calque of ounce. Cognate with Spanish onza, Portuguese onça, Catalan unça, French once, Italian oncia, and English ounce and inch.

inh

unit, <small>¹<big>⁄</big>₁₂</small> Roman pound

English or American ounce, a unit of mass equivalent to 28.35 g

(historical) onza, Spanish ounce, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to about 28.76 g


bioquímico

gl-noun

bioquímico m (plural bioquímicos, feminine bioquímica, feminine plural bioquímicas)

bioquímicos (plural)
bioquímica (feminine)
bioquímicas (feminine plural)


gripo

foot-and-mouth disease
foot-and-mouth disease


gruta

Attested in 1401 as a place name ("rua da Grota"). Perhaps borrowed from Catalan gruta, itself borrowed from Sicilian grutta or old Neapolitan grutta, from Vulgar Latin *grupta or *crupta, from Latin crypta. Doublet of cripta.


produto

Learned borrowing from Latin prōductus (“brought forth”).

lbor

(chemistry) product (compound produced in a reaction)


efe

The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.


eñe

The name of the Latin-script letter Ñ/ñ.


bruño

bruños (plural)
broo (alternative)
brumo (alternative)

Unknown. Compare Medieval Latin brunneus (“brown”) or brunia (“coat of mail, armor plate”), itself derived from Frankish *brunnjā.

European spider crab
European spider crab

a young European spider crab (Maja squinado)


sétimo

sétimos (plural)
7º (alternative abbreviation)
7ª (alternative abbreviation)


peneira

13th century. From Vulgar Latin *pinnaria, from Latin pinna (“feather”). Note that medieval Galician pena meant "pelt". Cognate with Portuguese peneira and Asturian peñera.

It. hua peneyra vella

1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 342:

1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a

A sack full of wheat flour, three sieves, a heap of chestnuts, two goatskins

Hun saco cheo de farina triiga, tres peneyras, hun restrello, dous odres


chícharo

[ˈt͡ʃit͡ʃɐɾʊ]

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


vezo

From Latin vitium. Doublet of vicio and of vizo.


louro

gl-noun

louro m (plural louros, feminine loura, feminine plural louras)

louros (plural)
loura (feminine)
louras (feminine plural)
loiro (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese louro (“dark coloured”), from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Cognate with Portuguese louro.

inh

Para esto val a manteiga mesturada con olio de louro

1409, Pensado Tomé, edited by José Luis, Tratado de Albeitaria, page 109:

For this is good the butter mixed with laurel oil


metáfora

Learned borrowing from Latin metaphora, from Ancient Greek μεταφορά (metaphorá).

metaphor (the use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning)


toupeira

toupeiras (plural)
teipeira (alternative)
teipoeira (alternative)
teupoeira (alternative)
tiopeira (alternative)
toupiñeira (alternative)
tupieira (alternative)

From toupa (“mole”) + -eira. Compare Portuguese toupeira and French taupinière.


toupeira

gl-noun

toupeira m or f by sense (plural toupeiras)


estrume

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], equivalent to estro + -ume, from estrar, from estrado, from Latin strātum. Related to English strew. Alternatively from a Vulgar Latin *strumen, from Latin strāmen, related to sternō and strātum.

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals

(uncountable) Discarded mixture of litter and manure, used as fertilizer


Pascua

From Old Galician-Portuguese pascua (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פסחא (paskha), from Hebrew פסח (pesakh). Cognate with Portuguese Páscoa, Asturian pascua, Spanish pascua.


austríaco

gl-noun

austríaco m (plural austríacos, feminine austríaca, feminine plural austríacas)

austríacos (plural)
austríaca (feminine)
austríacas (feminine plural)


senegalés

senegalés m (plural senegaleses, feminine senegalesa, feminine plural senegalesas)

senegaleses (plural)
senegalesa (feminine)
senegalesas (feminine plural)


ghanés

ghanés m (plural ghaneses, feminine ghanesa, feminine plural ghanesas)

ghaneses (plural)
ghanesa (feminine)
ghanesas (feminine plural)


gume

Attested since circa 1390. From Latin acūmen (“sharpened point”), from acus (“a needle, a pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”).

Et tragia aynda hũa sua espada que era moy fremosa et moy forte d'agume, et moy clara et moy luzente, et auia nome Durandas

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

And he also brought a sword that was very beauty and very strong in its edge, and very clear and very shining, and it had by name Durandal

edge (thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument)


cantil

15th century. From canto (“rim, border”) + -il.


titán

(Greek mythology) titan (pre-Olympian god)


lisca

Perhaps from Germanic, or either from a substrate language.


mecânico

mecânico m (plural mecânicos, feminine mecânica, feminine plural mecânicas)

mecânicos (plural)
mecânica (feminine)
mecânicas (feminine plural)


roubo

From Old Galician-Portuguese roubo (13th century), back-formation from roubar.

porla cruel guerra dos normanos, et frandeses et rroubos que moytas vezes faziã entrada porlo mar

1460, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 112:

because of the crude war of the Normans and Flemings and pillages that they made entering by the sea many times


proba

From Old Galician-Portuguese prova (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin proba.

a quantity of meat that is gifted to the ones who helped during the annual slaughter of pigs


diamante

(card games) diamond (a playing card of the suit diamonds, diamantes)


libertario

libertario m (plural libertarios, feminine libertaria, feminine plural libertarias)

libertarios (plural)
libertaria (feminine)
libertarias (feminine plural)


moca

Unknown. Related to Spanish mueca and probably also French moquer.

Mordesme en Papeliños,
que leeron moitas Xentes:
mordes me, chantasme os dentes
chantame agora os focinos:
si lendo estes meus termiños
fixères xestos, ou mocas,
ê contra min te desuocas,
ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
e focas no Corpo abrirme,
Chantame as mocas nas focas.

c. 1780, anonymous author, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:

You bite me in little papers
that many people have read
You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
Thrust now your snout
If reading these my terms
You do gestures or grimaces
and against me you run off at the mouth
and with clubs you want to injure me
and holes in my body open
Thrust the clubs into my holes


moca

mocas (plural)
monca (alternative)
mouca (alternative)

From an old Galician *mãoca, from man (“hand”) + -oca. Cognate with Asturian manueca.


moca

Ultimately from Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), due to its being a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.


moina

Probably from Occitan amoinà (“to beg”), from Latin eleemosyna (“alms”), from Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē).

(derogatory) a fraud, a rascal, a trickster


narcisista

narcisista m or f by sense (plural narcisistas)


narración

narracións (plural)
narraçom (alternative)
narração (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin nārrātiōnem.


narrador

gl-noun

narrador m (plural narradores, feminine narradora, feminine plural narradoras)

narradores (plural)
narradora (feminine)
narradoras (feminine plural)


armenio

armenio m (plural armenios, feminine armenia, feminine plural armenias)

armenios (plural)
armenia (feminine)
armenias (feminine plural)
arménio (alternative)


oportunista

oportunista m or f by sense (plural oportunistas)


distorsión

distorsións (plural)
distorçom (alternative)
distorção (alternative)


boneca

boneca f (plural bonecas, masculine boneco, masculine plural bonecos)

bonecas (plural)
boneco (masculine)
bonecos (masculine plural)
moneca (alternative)
monecra (alternative)

Ultimately from a substrate language, from *bonnĭcca, perhaps from *bodinĭcca, from Proto-Celtic *bodinā (“heap, bollard”). Compare French borne.

ball of cloth for applying varnish, etc.


nudista

nudista m or f by sense (plural nudistas)


piragua

From Spanish piragua, from Kari'na piraua.


pícaro

pícaro m (plural pícaros, feminine pícara, feminine plural pícaras)

pícaros (plural)
pícara (feminine)
pícaras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 18th century. Probably from Spanish pícaro. Further etymology unknown.


chata

14th century. From tacha, from Old French tache (“stain, blemish”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taikną (“sign, token”).

c1375, Eladio Oviedo Arce (ed.), "Fragmento de una versión gallega del Código de Las Partidas de Alfonso el Sabio", in López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, pp. 116-129

how to undo the sale of a serf when the seller hides the blemish or the meanness of this sale

como se pode desfazer a venda do seruo se o vendedor a encobre a chata ou a maldade dela

Palabra por decir non ten chata


parvo

parvo m (plural parvos, feminine parva, feminine plural parvas)

parvos (plural)
parva (feminine)
parvas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Latin parvus (“small; unimportant”), or from its diminutive parvulus; from Proto-Indo-European *ph₁w- (“few, small”). Cognate with Portuguese parvo.


parlatorio

parlatorios (plural)
parlatório (alternative)


expectación

expectacións (plural)
expectaçom (alternative)
expectação (alternative)


sexo oral

oral sex (stimulation of the genitals using the mouth)


responsabilidade

gl-noun

responsabilidade f (plural responsabilidades)


texano

texano m (plural texanos, feminine texana, feminine plural texanas)

texanos (plural)
texana (feminine)
texanas (feminine plural)


ciborio

(ecclesiastical, architecture) ciborium (covered receptacle for holding the consecrated wafers)


granado

From Latin (mālum) granātum, literally "apple with many seeds".


friulano

friulano m (plural friulanos, feminine friulana, feminine plural friulanas)

friulanos (plural)
friulana (feminine)
friulanas (feminine plural)


entraña

Attested since circa 1370. From Latin interānea, from the plural of Latin interāneum (“gut, intestine”), substantive of interāneus (“internal, inward”). Compare Portuguese entranha, Spanish entraña, Catalan entranya, and French entrailles.

(usually in the plural) bowels (seat of emotions)

(usually in the plural, by extension) gut, essence, core


morada

From Old Galician-Portuguese morada (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from morar (“to dwell”).


gafe

jinx (something or someone believed to bring bad luck)


especia

From Old Galician-Portuguese especias (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); a Medieval borrowing from Latin species.


ámbar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ambar, from Andalusian Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕánbar).
Cognate with Portuguese âmbar.


transportista

gl-noun

transportista m or f by sense (plural transportistas)

carrier (a person or object that carries someone or something else)


secuela

(narratology) sequel (a narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own)


barullo

Perhaps a back-formation from embarullar, from envurullar, from envurullo, from Latin involucrum.


cariz

unk

Obscure


activista

gl-noun

activista m or f by sense (plural activistas)

activistas (plural)
ativista (alternative)


monopolista

monopolista m or f by sense (plural monopolistas)


domingos

[d̪ʊˈmĩŋ.ɡʊs̺]

[d̪ʊˈmĩŋ.ɡʊs̺]

[d̪ʊˈmĩŋ.ħʊs̺]


empanada

From Old Galician-Portuguese enpãada, enpanada (13th century: Cantigas de Santa Maria), from *empãar (“to put into bread”). Perhaps under the influence of empanar (“to conceal”, literally “to put into a cloth”). Cognate with Portuguese empada.

inh

(cooking) pie; traditional stuffed pastry usually composed of two crusts of fine bread and a filling of sauté of vegetables and either meat or fish


tridente

[t̪ɾiˈð̞en̪.t̪ɪ]


moderación

moderacións (plural)
moderaçom (alternative)
moderação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin moderātiōnem. By surface analysis, moderar + -ción.


crina

crinas (plural)
clina (alternative)
quilina (alternative)
quina (alternative)

From Vulgar Latin *crina, from Latin crinis.


machinal

Probably from Mozarabic *machinal, from Late Latin machina (“scaffold”), form machina (“machine, tool”). Cognate with Spanish mechinal.

(architecture) putlog hole; hole made in a wall and used for scaffolding or ventilation


reconciliación

gl-noun

reconciliación f (plural reconciliacións)

Learned borrowing from Latin reconciliātiōnem.


rectificación

rectificacións (plural)
rectificaçom (alternative)
retificaçom (alternative)
retificação (alternative)


berro

—Como te chaman, roxiña? —Cando estou lonxe, a berros.

—How do they call you, little redhead? —When I am far away, by shouting.


berro

From Paleo-Hispanic, from Proto-Celtic *beruro- (“watercress”). Cognate with Spanish berro, Asturian berriu, Breton beler and Gaulish berula.


rabdomante

gl-noun

rabdomante m or f by sense (plural rabdomantes)

dowser; rhabdomancer (one who uses a dowsing rod to find underground water)


represión

represións (plural)
repressom (alternative)
repressão (alternative)


mitocôndria

reintegrationist spelling of mitocondria


mitocondria

mitocondrias (plural)
mitocôndria (alternative)


barbudo

barbudo m (plural barbudos, feminine barbuda, feminine plural barbudas)

barbudos (plural)
barbuda (feminine)
barbudas (feminine plural)

[baɾˈβ̞u.ð̞ʊ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *barbūtus (“bearded”). Compare Portuguese and Spanish barbudo. By surface analysis, barba (“beard”) + -udo.


barbuda

From barbudo (“bearded”). The coinage, because of it depicting a full helm or barbuda.

1371, A. López Carreira (ed.), Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 381:
ouvo en estas viñas triinta e seys çestos de huvas e de conposta. Et que custara o carreto tres barbudas cada çesto, que montaron çento e oyto barbudas, que montaron en crusados mill e seysçentos e viinte crusados.
there were in this vineyard thirty-six baskets of grapes and compote. And that the carriage costed three barbudas each basket, amounting to a hundred and eight barbudas, which amounted to one thousand and six hundred and twenty cruzados.

(numismatics, historical) a medieval Portuguese silver coinage, briefly also minted in Galicia during the reign of king Fernando I of Portugal when locally recognized as king


revisionista

gl-noun

revisionista m or f by sense (plural revisionistas)


cuartos

(sports, soccer) quarter finals, quarterfinals


exorcismo

exorcism (ritual driving out of evil spirits)


cumas

head

cumas f pl (feminine singular cuma, masculine singular cum, masculine plural cuns)

cuma (feminine singular)
cum (masculine singular)
cuns (masculine plural)


rafa

Deverbal from rafar (“to erode, to wear away”), perhaps from Suevic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *hrapōną (“to scratch, scrape”); compare German raffen.

der

crumb (the soft internal portion of bread)


lentisco

Attested since 1409. Learned borrowing from Latin lentīscus.

Pistacia lentiscus
Pistacia lentiscus#Translingual


mestre

gl-noun

mestre m (plural mestres, feminine mestra, feminine plural mestras)

mestres (plural)
mestra (feminine)
mestras (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese meestre, from earlier maestre, via Old Occitan maestre or Old Catalan maestre, from Latin magister, magistrum. Alternatively inherited from the Latin nominative magister or influenced by Spanish maestro. Doublet of maestro and máster. Cognate with Portuguese mestre.


laa

From Old Galician-Portuguese lãa, from Latin lāna.


tonsura

Learned borrowing from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).


codirector

gl-noun

codirector m (plural codirectores, feminine codirectora, feminine plural codirectoras)

codirectores (plural)
codirectora (feminine)
codirectoras (feminine plural)


viño

viños (plural)
vinho (alternative)
vĩo (alternative)

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.


cendra

From a bad lecture of an 18th century author by a 19th century lexicographer; later incorporated into several 19th and 20th century dictionaries, and subsequently acquiring some minor literary use.


coches eléctricos

coche eléctrico
coche eléctrico#Galician


correos electrónicos

correo electrónico
correo electrónico#Galician


sábados

[ˈs̺a.β̞ɐ.ð̞ʊs̺]


agra

13th century. From Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

vendo dous leyros que iazen en a agra de Cas dos Ferreyros

1300, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites, editor, Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón, Lugo: Deputación, page 42:

I sell two fields that are in the agra of Cas dos Ferreiros

large apportion of farmland, usually comprising a number of different properties and fields


valenciano

gl-noun

valenciano m (plural valencianos, feminine valenciana, feminine plural valencianas)

valencianos (plural)
valenciana (feminine)
valencianas (feminine plural)


abrigos

[aˈβ̞ɾi.ɣ̞os̺]

[aˈβ̞ɾi.ɣ̞os̺]


cubista

cubista m or f by sense (plural cubistas)


kenyano

kenyano m (plural kenyanos, feminine kenyana, feminine plural kenyanas)

kenyanos (plural)
kenyana (feminine)
kenyanas (feminine plural)


escote

From Old French escot (“payment”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skutą (“that which is thrown, shot, projectile, bullet, missile”).

der

individual share or part of a payment (i.e. the portion held by one person of a financial commitment that was made jointly with others)


escote

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skutą (“that which is thrown, shot, projectile, bullet, missile”); cognate with English shoot.


antiabortista

gl-noun

antiabortista m or f by sense (plural antiabortistas)


sebo

From Old Galician-Portuguese sevo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sēbum (“tallow; suet”).

ponlle papuxas de farellos coytas en vinagre et con pouco de seuo

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 147:

apply a poultice of bran boiled in vinegar, with some tallow

dez libras de sevo para ensevar a dita pinaça

1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 22

ten pounds of fat for caulking the aforementioned pinnace


prostitución

Learned borrowing from Latin prōstitūtiōnem.


metafísico

gl-noun

metafísico m (plural metafísicos, feminine metafísica, feminine plural metafísicas)

metafísicos (plural)
metafísica (feminine)
metafísicas (feminine plural)


terebinto

From Latin terebinthus, from Ancient Greek τερέβινθος (terébinthos).


navarro

navarro m (plural navarros, feminine navarra, feminine plural navarras)

navarros (plural)
navarra (feminine)
navarras (feminine plural)


catástrofe

From Ancient Greek καταστροφή (katastrophḗ).


mención

mencións (plural)
mençom (alternative)
menção (alternative)


transición

Learned borrowing from Latin trānsitiōnem.


separatista

gl-noun

separatista m or f by sense (plural separatistas)


parágrafo

From Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos, “short stroke in the margin”).


liberticida

gl-noun

liberticida m or f by sense (plural liberticidas)

From lībertās (“liberdade (liberty) in Latin”) + -cida.

liberticide (one who causes the destruction of liberty)


nutrición

nutricións (plural)
nutriçom (alternative)
nutrição (alternative)


existencialista

existencialista m or f by sense (plural existencialistas)


falsario

falsario m (plural falsarios, feminine falsaria, feminine plural falsarias)

falsarios (plural)
falsaria (feminine)
falsarias (feminine plural)

Attested since circa 1300. Learned borrowing from Latin falsarius.

Et hũus dizem que o enforcou com̃o a falsario

c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 685:

And some say that he hanged him as a falsifier


franqueza

From Old Galician-Portuguese franqueza (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French franchise (“freedom”), a derivative of franc (“free”).

frankness (sincere and open speech, honesty in expression)

(archaic) privilege, exemption; nobility


hipertensión

hipertensións (plural)
hipertensom (alternative)


distinción

distincións (plural)
distinçom (alternative)
distinção (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin distinctiōnem.


biocombustible

gl-noun

biocombustible m (plural biocombustibles)


fermentación

fermentacións (plural)
fermentaçom (alternative)
fermentação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin fermentātiōnem.


fisiólogo

gl-noun

fisiólogo m (plural fisiólogos, feminine fisióloga, feminine plural fisiólogas)

fisiólogos (plural)
fisióloga (feminine)
fisiólogas (feminine plural)


fisióloga

female equivalent of fisiólogo (“physiologist”)


tropel

From Old Galician-Portuguese tropel (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French tropel (“group”).


imperfección

Learned borrowing from Latin imperfectiōnem.


plantación

plantacións (plural)
plantaçom (alternative)
plantação (alternative)


francófono

gl-noun

francófono m (plural francófonos, feminine francófona, feminine plural francófonas)

francófonos (plural)
francófona (feminine)
francófonas (feminine plural)


meditación

meditacións (plural)
meditaçom (alternative)
meditação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin meditātiōnem. By surface analysis, meditar + -ción.

lbor

meditation (action and effect of meditating)


regato

Rego (“stream”) + -ato, a diminituve suffix.

Adios rios, adios fontes,
Adios regatos pequenos,
Adios vista dos meus ollos
Non sei cando nos veremos.

1861, Rosalia de Castro, Cantares Gallegos:

Farewell, rivers; farewell, fountains;
Farewell, little brooks;
Farewell, sight of my eyes
I don't know when we'll meet again


dinámica

From Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós, “powerful”), from δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “to be able”).

uder

(mechanics) dynamic, dynamics (part of mechanics that studies the movement of bodies in relation to the forces that produce it)

(by extension) dynamic, dynamics (succession of facts, events, etc., which according to certain circumstances, reasons or principles chained together, make up a process, action, etc.)


reorganización

gl-noun

reorganización f (plural reorganizacións)

reorganizacións (plural)
reorganizaçom (alternative)
reorganização (alternative)

From reorganizar + -ción. Cognate with Portuguese reorganização.


pegada

[peˈɣ̞ɑ.ð̞ɐ]

[peˈɣ̞ɑ.ð̞ɐ]

Probably from Latin *pedicāta, from pēs. See Portuguese pegada.

footprint (impression of the foot in a soft substance)

mark, imprint (visible impression or sign left on something)

fingerprint (unique natural pattern of ridges on the tips of the fingers; marks left by these)

(computing, figurative) fingerprint (unique identification)


condolencia

condolencias (plural)
condolência (alternative)


picada

mando que, qualquer rrey ou duc ou conde ou caualeyro a que eu fije cousa desaguisada, que logo, sen tardar, se leuãte et me ueña dar hũa picada ẽno nariz

1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 476:

I command that any king or duke or count or knight, to whom I did wrong things, at the moment, without delay, to get up and come to give me a blow to the nose


locomoción

locomocións (plural)
locomoçom (alternative)
locomoção (alternative)

locomotion (the ability to move from place to place)


cervexa

Inherited from Latin cervēs(i)a. Compare Portuguese cerveja, Spanish cerveza.


cuadrilla

cuadrillas (plural)
quadrilha (alternative)

team, crew of workers, specially those working on construction or agriculture


prestamista

prestamista m or f by sense (plural prestamistas)

usurer, loan shark (someone lending money at exorbitant rates of interest)


clavícula

Learned borrowing from Latin clavicula. Doublet of chavella, inherited.


grei

From Old Galician-Portuguese grey, gree, from Latin grex. Doublet of grea.
Cognate with Portuguese grei and Spanish grey.

(Christianity) parish (members of a church's congregation)

(historical) group of vassals or subjects


suco

Attested since 1290. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin sulcus. Cognate with Portuguese sulco, Spanish surco.

furrow (a trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop)


brida

Attested since 1474. Borrowed from Middle French bride.


mazo

From Old Galician-Portuguese maço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from maza (“mallet”). Cognate with Portuguese maço and Spanish mazo.

(by extension) forge, blacksmith's workshop


paracaidista

paracaidista m or f by sense (plural paracaidistas)


invención

invencións (plural)
invençom (alternative)
invenção (alternative)


páramo

From Paleo-Hispanic, compare local Latin parămus, from a superlative of Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before”) meaning "the highest" vel sim. Cognate with, for example, Pali parama (“superior, excellent”).
This same element is present in Hispanic autochthonous personal names (Anparamo), theonyms (Paramaecus) and toponyms (Paramica) recorded in Roman inscriptions, or by Greek or Roman authors.

mesa, plateau, high wasteland or moorland


malicia

As lançadas que nos tiran
 os que benden
 que os ollos sacar pretenden
 todo para lebar fora
 A malizia neles mora
 qu'este e o trato en que se entenden

1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:

the lances they throw at us
 the ones selling
 they want to gouge our eyes
 for taking all away
Malice dwells inside them
 this is the deal they understand


morcilla

Attested since the 18th century. Borrowed from Spanish morcilla, which substituted the inherited morcela.


relevancia

relevancias (plural)
relevância (alternative)


fanega

From Spanish fanega attested from the 13th century, from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (faníqa, “sack”), from Arabic.

der

English or American bushel, a dry measure

Desa leira tirei eu o ano pasado vinte fanegas de trigo. Cen ferrados.

That field gave last year 20 fanegas of wheat. A hundred ferrados.

cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.

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

a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight fanegas of legume, beans and peas; and two ferrados of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 sails of ships that he had pawned for 600 mor.

tres fanegas, è decir quince ferrados de centeo
three fanegas, that is, fifteen ferrados or rye

1823, Pedro Boado Sánchez, Diálogo entre dos Labradores gallegos afligidos:

(historical) fanega, the Spanish bushel, a traditional dry measure, sometimes varying from the Castilian standards in Galician-speaking areas of Spain and closer to 60 L


biólogo

gl-noun

biólogo m (plural biólogos, feminine bióloga, feminine plural biólogas)

biólogos (plural)
bióloga (feminine)
biólogas (feminine plural)


código de barras

código de barras m (plural códigos de barras)

barcode (set of machine-readable parallel bars)


piago

From Old Galician-Portuguese peego (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pelagus, from Ancient Greek πέλαγος (pélagos). Cognate with Portuguese pego and Spanish piélago.


sistema solar

sistema solar m (plural sistemas solares)


indonesio

indonesio m (plural indonesios, feminine indonesia, feminine plural indonesias)

indonesios (plural)
indonesia (feminine)
indonesias (feminine plural)


rubí

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rubi, from Old Occitan rubí, from Medieval Latin rubīnus, from Latin rubeus. First attested in the 13th century.


enxerto

enxertos (plural)
enxerdo (alternative)
enxerte (alternative)
inxerto (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin insertus. Cognate with Portuguese enxerto and Spanish injerto.

(horticulture) a plant which has undergone grafting


fusco

Learned borrowing from Latin fuscus; Doublet of fosco.


sarrio

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Paleo-Hispanic.

con sal mudo et con sarro de cuba que chaman tartaro

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria00. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 151:

with ground salt and with barrel sarro, which they call tartar

tartar (red compound deposited during wine making)

Semibalanus balanoides
Wikispecies:Semibalanus balanoides


virtude

Since the 13th century. From a semi-learned alteration of From Old Galician-Portuguese vertude (based on its etymology), from Latin virtūtem, accusative singular of virtūs (“manliness; virtue”).


terramoto

terramotos (plural)
terremoto (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin terraemotus.


superstición

supersticións (plural)
superstiçom (alternative)
superstição (alternative)


entomoloxía

From Ancient Greek ἔντομον (éntomon) + -loxía.


bergamota

bergamot (variety of pear; also, its fruit)


incompetencia

incompetencias (plural)
incompetência (alternative)


padrasto

padrastos (plural)
padrasco (alternative)

From Latin patraster (“father-in-law”), from pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”).


madrasta

madrastas (plural)
madrasca (alternative)

Attested since circa 1300. From Late Latin mātrastra (“stepmother”), from Latin māter (“mother”). Compare Galician madrasta, Spanish madrastra.


prezo

From Old Galician-Portuguese preço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pretium. Cognate with Portuguese preço and Spanish precio.

Ali venden millo
Trigo è mais centeo
Fabas è castañas
Roupa è trapos vellos;
Tamen venden louza
De côr branco e prêto,
Hai tendas do chan
E tamen cubertos
Con cousas do uso
Todas a bon prezo

1842, Juan Manuel Pintos, Meu Querido Pai:

There they sell corn
wheat and also rye
beans and chestnuts
clothes and old rags
also they sell dishware
of colour white and black,
there they sell on the ground
and also under cover
with handy things
all at a good price


libanés

gl-noun

libanés m (plural libaneses, feminine libanesa, feminine plural libanesas)

libaneses (plural)
libanesa (feminine)
libanesas (feminine plural)
libanês (alternative)


trevo

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *trifŏlum, from Latin trifolium (“trefoil, clover”), from tria (“three”) + folium (“leaf”).

(card games) club (a playing card of the suit clubs, trevos)


trevo

From Paleo-Hispanic *trebăno, perhaps from Proto-Celtic *trebā (“house”). Compare trobo.


apatía

Learned borrowing from Latin apathīa, from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia), from ἀπαθής (apathḗs, “without feeling or suffering”).


renano

renano m (plural renanos, feminine renana, feminine plural renanas)

renanos (plural)
renana (feminine)
renanas (feminine plural)


barbeiro

barbeiro m (plural barbeiros, feminine barbeira, feminine plural barbeiras)

barbeiros (plural)
barbeira (feminine)
barbeiras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 15th century: barba + -eiro. Compare Portuguese barbeiro, Spanish barbero, English barber.


chafariz

Attested from the 15th century (as xafariz), from Arabic صِهْرِيج (ṣihrīj), from Middle Persian. Compare Portuguese chafariz, Spanish jaraíz (“vat”) and Catalan safareig (“water deposit”).

(regional) fountain (artificial water feature)


antropólogo

antropólogo m (plural antropólogos, feminine antropóloga, feminine plural antropólogas)

antropólogos (plural)
antropóloga (feminine)
antropólogas (feminine plural)

anthropologist (person who studies anthropology)


consolidación

consolidacións (plural)
consolidaçom (alternative)
consolidação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsolidātiōnem.


oleiro

gl-noun

oleiro m (plural oleiros, feminine oleira, feminine plural oleiras)

oleiros (plural)
oleira (feminine)
oleiras (feminine plural)

Ola (“pot”) + -eiro, or possibly from Late Latin ollārius, from Latin ōlla.

Iten, ordenaron mays sobre rason das ollas que tragan os oleiros a vender a çidade a qual ordenança feseron en esta maneira: que qual quer ome de fora, oleyro, que trouxese ollas a vender a esta çidade, que as vendese por sy meesmo, ata seyda de mynsa grande, e que esteue con elas as vender por sy meesmo ata que o relogo dese des oras, e que regateyra nenhua que llas nos mercase ata las dez oras, su a pena que está ordenada por lo conçello, et pasente as ditas dez oras, que os olleyros e omees de fora que posan vender as ditas ollas á engrós a quaes quer pesonas que llas quiseren mercar, et as regateyras da dita çidade que llas posan mercar des las des oras endiante sen pena algua

1433, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 97:

Item, they ordered about the pots that potters bring to this city for selling, and this ordinance was made this way: that any foreigner, a potter, who brings pots for selling to this city, that they can sell them by themselves till exit of the main mass, and that they should stay with them till the clock strikes ten, and that no reseller could buy them till ten o´clock under the penalty set by the Council; and after ten o'clock that potters and foreigners can sell the aforementioned pots to anyone who would buy them, and that local resellers could buy these pots from them after ten o´clock without any penalty

(in the plural, dated) place with tumuli or barrows


ribeira

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ribeira, from Early Medieval Latin rīpāria.


galega

(colloquial) Televisión de Galicia (TVG)


dispersión

Learned borrowing from Latin dispersiōnem.


notación

notacións (plural)
notaçom (alternative)
notação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin notātiōnem.


estimación

estimacións (plural)
estimazón (alternative)

Attested since the 13th century (estimaçon). From Latin aestimātiōnem.


seixo

From Latin saxum (“rock”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“cut”). Cognate with Portuguese seixo (“pebble”) and Italian sasso (“stone”).


carnívoro

Learned borrowing from Latin carnivorus.


probador

gl-noun

probador m (plural probadores, feminine probadora, feminine plural probadoras)

probadores (plural)
probadora (feminine)
probadoras (feminine plural)


obstinación

obstinacións (plural)
obstinaçom (alternative)
obstinação (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin obstinātiōnem.


probabilidade

From Latin probabilitas (“probability, credibility”), from probabilis (“probable, credible”).


subversión

subversións (plural)
subversom (alternative)
subversão (alternative)

[s̺uβ̞.β̞ɛɾˈs̺joŋ]


camba

From Proto-Celtic *kambos (“curved”). Cognate with Walloon tchame (“wheelrim”), Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”), Welsh cam (“crooked”).

each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)


bronca

rebuke, scolding, telling-off (critical remarks)


cordura

[kɔɾˈð̞u.ɾɐ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese cordura (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): from cordo + -ura.


regazo

regazos (plural)
garrazo (alternative)
rogazo (alternative)
regaço (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese regaço (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back formation from regaçar (Modern Galician arregazar). Compare Portuguese regaço and Spanish regazo.

projecting ledge before the door of a wood oven


masoquista

gl-noun

masoquista m or f by sense (plural masoquistas)


invasor

invasor m (plural invasores, feminine invasora, feminine plural invasoras)

invasores (plural)
invasora (feminine)
invasoras (feminine plural)


beterraba

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


oncólogo

oncólogo m (plural oncólogos, feminine oncóloga, feminine plural oncólogas)

oncólogos (plural)
oncóloga (feminine)
oncólogas (feminine plural)

oncologist (a doctor or scientist who specializes in oncology)


romanés

romanés m (plural romaneses, feminine romanesa, feminine plural romanesas)

romaneses (plural)
romanesa (feminine)
romanesas (feminine plural)


árbore

[ˈaɾ.β̞o.ɾɪ]

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arvor, from Latin arborem. Compare Portuguese árvore, Spanish árbol.


froito

From Old Galician-Portuguese fruito, from Latin fructus. Compare Portuguese fruito and Spanish fruto.


pebida

pebidas (plural)
pebide (alternative)
pepida (alternative)
píbeda (alternative)
pibida (alternative)
pibide (alternative)
píboda (alternative)

From Late Latin pipita, from pituita (“pip”). Cognate with Portuguese pevide and Spanish pepita.

pip; hardening of the tip of the tongue of a chicken or hen

extreme of the axle which stands out of the wheel


roseta

Etymology tree
Proto-Iranian *wardahder.?
Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon)bor.?
Latin rosalbor.
Old French rose
Latin -ittus
Old French -ete
Old French rosetebor.?
Old Galician-Portuguese roseta
Galician roseta
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese roseta, possibly borrowed from Old French rosete, from rose + -ete.

etymon

rosette (ornamental imitation of a rose)


rexión

rexións (plural)
regiom (alternative)
região (alternative)


cociña

cociñas (plural)
cuciña (alternative)
cozinha (alternative)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cozinha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Cognate with Portuguese cozinha, Asturian and Spanish cocina.

inh+

Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.

The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax, for the year's cloth.


groso

From Old Galician-Portuguese grosso (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin grossus. Cognate with Portuguese grosso and Spanish grueso.


néctar

From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar), from Proto-Indo-European *néḱtr̥h₂, derived from the roots *neḱ- (“to perish, disappear”) and *terh₂- (“to overcome”).


estrutura

From Latin structūra (“adjustment”), from struō (“I construct”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to spread”).


toxo

From Old Galician-Portuguese tojo, from a substrate *toju or similar, from *togio or *toio, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tey- or *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”), whence Latin stilus and English stick and thistle; compare Portuguese tojo, Asturian toxu, Occitan toujo.

A raíz do toxo verde é moi mala de arrincar; os amoriños primeiros son moi malos de olvidar

Green gorse stump is so hard to unroot; first love is so hard to forget

se vsaren cauallgar en el por toios ou por llugares asperos a esto semellauijs, ven o Cauallo vsado a saltar et andar porllos llugares sobreditos, alçara as coixas et os pees mais apostamente pollos outros llugares

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:

if they happen to ride in [the horse] through gorses or through rough places similar to that, and the horse is used to jump and walk by the aforementioned places, then he will raise the thighs and the feet more handsomely when in other places

Ulex europaeus
Ulex europaeus#Translingual

2006, Malandrómeda, Paseo no fume [song]

I'm a gorse [prickly] but I am [sound] as a box tree


disección

Learned borrowing from Latin dissectiōnem.


cirurxía

From Old Galician-Portuguese cilurgia, borrowed from Latin chīrurgia, from chīrurgus, from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós) (cf. χειρουργία (kheirourgía)), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work, labor”).


axuda

From Old Galician-Portuguese ajuda (13th century). Back-formation from axudar. Compare Portuguese ajuda, Asturian axuda, Spanish ayuda.


chea

From Latin plēnus, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).

Desde o Thamassis frolido / Ó Nilo das grandes cheas

1697, several authors, Fiestas Minervales, Santiago: Antonio Frayz, page 32:

From the flowery Thames / Till the Nile of the large floods

(figurative) large quantity of something (usually used followed by the preposition de)


xordo

gl-noun

xordo m (plural xordos, feminine xorda, feminine plural xordas)

xordos (plural)
xorda (feminine)
xordas (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sordo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin surdus. Cognate with Portuguese surdo.


humidade

Attested since circa 1409. Haplological contraction of Latin humiditas, humiditatem.


baleiro

baleiros (plural)
baldeiro (alternative)
valeiro (alternative)

Unknown. Maybe from Galician balde, and hence the orthography with <b>.


baldeiro

baldeiro m (plural baldeiros, feminine baldeira, feminine plural baldeiras)

baldeiros (plural)
baldeira (feminine)
baldeiras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 15th century. From balde (“bucket”) + -eiro.


avoa

From Old Galician-Portuguese avoa, from Late Latin aviola, diminutive from Latin avia (“grandmother”).


almofada

Borrowed from Arabic مِخَدَّة (miḵadda), via Andalusian Arabic. First attested in the 15th century.
Cognate with Portuguese almofada and Spanish almohada.

Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127

Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a wool blanket, and if there are in house a pair of quilts, she should have one


avogado

avogado m (plural avogados, feminine avogada, feminine plural avogadas)

avogados (plural)
avogada (feminine)
avogadas (feminine plural)

Cantigas de Santa Maria
gl:Valentín Paz-Andrade

From Old Galician-Portuguese avogado (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin advocātus. Compare Spanish abogado and Portuguese advogado.

Quando quiſerdes preguntar alguna das partes por ſaber uerdade do preyto non conſintadeſ que o ſeu auogado falle con el alla orella nen que ſaya con el aparte a fallar

c. 1290, “Tres fragmentos jurídicos galaicoportugueses”, in J. L. Pensado, editor, Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, 29 (87-88-89), page 124:

Whenever you want to question any side for knowing the truth of the lawsuit, don't consent on their lawyer speaking with him to the ear, nor on them getting away to speak

1326, López Ferreiro, Antonio (ed.): Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 294

Mary the Virgin, advocate of the sinners and aid of the afflicted, complete of every virtue and of every saintliness over all the other creature that God wanted to make in Heaven as well as in Earth

Maria virgen que he auogada dos pecadores et acorremento dos cuitados complida de todas uirtudes et de todas santidades sobrelas outras criaturas que deus quis facer enno ceo et enna terra


azucre

azucres (plural)
azruque (alternative)
zruque (alternative)
zucre (alternative)
açucre (alternative)

Ultimately from Arabic السُكَّر (as-sukkar), from Persian شکر (šakar).

Unha muller déralles manteiga con azucre

A woman had given them butter with sugar.

Poñed'unha ola chea de viño e mel tras do lar,
ou con azucre e manteiga para un grolo impois botar

Place a pot full with wine and honey by the hearth,
or with sugar and butter, for later having a gulp


beizo

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese beiço, probably from Celtic. Cognate with Portuguese beiço, Spanish bezo and Asturian bezu.

et tornarõselle os ollos, et aboca, et os beyços, et os ombros, et as mãos, todo fremoso, tal cõmo deuja seer de [dõna] et jnfanta filla de rrey

c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 256:

and her eyes, and mouth, and lips, and shoulders, and hands turned gorgeous, as they should be of a lady and princess, daughter of a king


beixo

From Old Galician-Portuguese beijo, from Latin bāsium.

the first loaf or crumb of a piece of bread


cadro

Attested since the 14th century (quadro). From Latin quadrus. Compare Portuguese quadro and Spanish cuadro.

square (something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form)


camisola

jersey, uniform shirt worn by members of an athletic team


carniceiro

carniceiro m (plural carniceiros, feminine carniceira, feminine plural carniceiras)

carniceiros (plural)
carniceira (feminine)
carniceiras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 13th century (carniçeiro). From carnaza + -eiro.

os ditos señores feseron pregunta aos ditos Martín Peres e Aluaro, carniçeiros, se se querían obrigar de dar carne abondo á dita çidade con os outros carniçeiros, en tal maneira que o dito señor obispo e cabídoo e conçello e vesinos da dita çidade ouuese abondo de carne de boys e de vacas e carneiros e cabirtos e rojeelos

1434, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 106:

the aforementioned gentlemen asked said Martin Perez and Álvaro, butchers, if they wanted to bind themselves to give enough meat to this city, with the others butchers, so the bishop, and the Chapter, and the Council, and the neighbours of this city would have enough meat of oxen, and of cows, of rams, and of kids and lambs


carpinteiro

carpinteiro m (plural carpinteiros, feminine carpinteira, feminine plural carpinteiras)

carpinteiros (plural)
carpinteira (feminine)
carpinteiras (feminine plural)

From Late Latin carpentārius (“carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot”).

inh

Dempois vin dúas lavandeiras que depenicaban unha espiga de trigo na leira de Xan de Pedreira, unha pomba que voaba pró souto de Fonte Boa, unha péga que fuxía de un lagarteiro, catro corvos que espaturraban un canciño morto na carballeira, un melro que asubiaba entre as follas dun cereixo, un carpinteiro que facía o burato pró seu niño; e unha laverca que rebulía no aire, con unha miñoquiña no pico.

1894, Luís Otero Pimentel, Truada de rapaces:

After this I saw two wagtails which were pecking a wheat spike at the field of Xan de Pedreira, a dove flying to the wood of Fonte Boa, a magpie fleeing from a kestrel, four ravens which were clawing at a dead pup at the oak grove, a blackbird whistling in the leaves of a cherry tree, a woodpecker making the hole of its nest; and a lark fluttering in the air with a little earthworm in its beak.


castiñeiro

castiñeiros (plural)
castiro (alternative)
castanheiro (alternative)
castinheiro (alternative)

From local Medieval Latin castanario, from castanea (“chestnut”). Cognate with Portuguese castanheiro.


cenoria

cenorias (plural)
cenoira (alternative)
cenoura (alternative)

From Old Spanish çahanoria, from Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya), from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία (staphulínē agría, “wild carrot”).
Cognate with Mirandese and Portuguese cenoura, Asturian and Spanish zanahoria (and their descendants into other languages),
Maltese zunnarija,
Catalan safanòria, Basque azenario and Libyan Arabic سفنّاريّة (sfənnāriyya).

der

*سَفُنَّارْيَة

إِسْفَنَارِيَّة

σταφυλίνη ἀγρία


cerralleiro

cerralleiros (plural)
cerralheiro (alternative)


cheminea

chemineas (plural)
chaminea (alternative)
chamineia (alternative)
chemineia (alternative)
chiminea (alternative)
chimineia (alternative)
chaminé (alternative)

First attested in the 19th century. From French cheminée.


cóbado

cóbados (plural)
cóbedo (alternative)
códabo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese covedo, attested in the 13th-century Cantigas de Santa Maria, from Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”). Cognate with Portuguese côvado and coto, Spanish codo and possibly coto, and Catalan colze and colzo.

Et tam grande foy a morteydade que en aquel dia fez enos mouros que lli corria o sangui (o sangui) pelos couedos ajuso

c. 1300, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 568:

And the mortality he caused that day on the Moors was such that blood was running from his elbows down

cubit, an informal measure of length based on the distance of a forearm and hand

Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo

1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 413:

Item, the aforementioned Gonzalo Fernandez and Gonzalo Ferreiro committed themselves to bring, for the construction of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beams of oak, each one at least twenty-seven cubits long

(historical) codo, Spanish cubit, a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.6 cm


cotobelo

cotobelos (plural)
cotofelo (alternative)
cotomelo (alternative)
cotramelo (alternative)

Unclear. From Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately probably from Latin cubitum (“elbow”); either from Latin cubitālis (via Mozarabic qubtal) or alternatively from Latin cubitellum. Compare Portuguese cotovelo.

unk

Unclear


curmán

gl-noun

curmán m (plural curmáns, feminine curmá, feminine plural curmás)

curmáns (plural)
curmá (feminine)
curmás (feminine plural)

From Old Galician-Portuguese coirmão, from Latin co- (“with”) + germanus (“brother”), from Latin germanus which originated Galician irmán (“brother”).


curmá

From Old Galician-Portuguese coirmãa, from Latin co- (“with”) + germana (“sister”), from Latin germana (“sister”) which originated Galician irmá (“sister”).


enxeñeiro

enxeñeiro m (plural enxeñeiros, feminine enxeñeira, feminine plural enxeñeiras)

enxeñeiros (plural)
enxeñeira (feminine)
enxeñeiras (feminine plural)

O enxeñeiro naval dedícase ao proxecto e construción de barcos. Enxeñeiro industrial. Enxeñeiro téxtil.

engineer (person who specializes in engineering)


escada

14th century. From older escaada, from Old Galician-Portuguese *escaada, from Vulgar Latin *scālata, from Latin scāla (“stair, staircase, ladder”).

inh

Et a moller tornou moyto agina et buscou hũa escaada et Desposome da forqua.

1390, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: CSIC, page 4:

And the woman returned very soon, searched for a ladder, and took me from the gallows

1385, Clara Rodríguez Núñez (ed.), "Santa María de Belvís, un convento mendicante femenino en la Baja Edad Media (1305-1400)", Estudios Mindonienses, 5, page 460

[house] which we sell to you in width and throughout, with all of its stones, and walls, and stairs, and exits, and belongings and rights that belong to it and that must belong to it, with its waters, from the sky till the ground

a qual vos vendemos en ancho et en longo con toda sua pedra et paredes et escadas et seydas et perteenças et dreyturas que le perteesçen et perteesçer deven con suas agoas des do çeo a terra


escaleira

13th century. Adaptation from Spanish escalera, from Late Latin scalaria, from Latin scalae. Compare the doublet esqueira.

prouarõ tres escaleyras de fuste et acharõnas curtas; et desi atarõnas a hũa cõ a outra et deytarõnas a hũa torre

c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 806:

they tried three wooden ladders but found them too short; and so they tied them together and leaned them against a tower


dicionario

dicionarios (plural)
diccionario (alternative obsolete)
dicionário (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium (“dictionary”), from Latin dictiōnem (“saying, speaking”) + -ārium.


xerundio

From Latin gerundium, from gerundus (“which is to be carried out”), future passive participle (gerundive) of gerō (“carry, bear”).


deformidade

From Latin dēfōrmitās (“deformity, ugliness”).


diversidade

[d̪i.β̞eɾ.s̺iˈð̞a.ð̞ɪ]


sólido platónico

gl-noun

sólido platónico m (plural sólidos platónicos)


sólidos platónicos

sólido platónico
sólido platónico#Galician


osíxeno

oxíxeno (alternative)
oxigénio (alternative)


xofre

Circa 1300. Already attested in From Old Galician-Portuguese in the Cantigas de Santa Maria (13th century) as suffre. From Latin sulfur, sulphur, sulphure, from Proto-Indo-European *swelplos, from the root *swel- (“to burn, smoulder”). Compare Portuguese enxofre.

Acharon en hun esqeiro hun pedaço de pedra xofre [...] et fogil et ysca et candea de çera et hun pente e mechas de xofre e hun cordón de sedas

1455, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, page 315:

They found in a tinder container a piece of sulphur stone … and a tinderbox, and tinder, and a candle made of wax, and a comb, and sulfur wicks, and a silk cord


respirador

respirator (a device designed to allow breathing when it would otherwise be hindered)


charro

Unknown. Attested in Galician since circa 1539, earlier than in other Iberian languages, which makes the proposed Basque etymology less probable. Compare Asturian charru.

(linguistics) transitional dialect in between Galician and Asturian, in some regions of León


escuro

From Old Galician-Portuguese escuro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), scuro, oscuro, from Latin obscūrus.


embigo

embigos (plural)
beligo (alternative)
embeligo (alternative)
imbío (alternative)
ombigo (alternative)
umbigo (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese ẽbijgo, from Latin umbilīcus.

Sabe que por mĩ nõ entra ferro senõ por lo ynbiigo

1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 117:


táboa

From Old Galician-Portuguese tavoa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin tabula (“board; plank”). Cognate with Portuguese tábua and Spanish tabla.

Fernán Gonçalues de Lamella se obrigou de dar en nome do conçello de çidade d'Ourense çento táboas et quarenta madeyros en esta maneyra que se sige: las táboas que aja cada hua des pees do dito Fernán Garçía et de la anchura, segundo está aquí asinallada de maao a maao, et an de auer de gordo dous dedos et que sejan dereytas e chaas e boas e merchinas sen furados, et os quarenta madeyros an de seer en esta maneyra que se sige: de ancho como está asinallado de maao en maao et de alto a terçeera maao, et an de auer de longo dose pees ou de mays, et destes madeyros ha de auer quatro que an de auer des et oyto pees en longo ou mays, se mays poderen auer, et estes madeyros an de seer de çerno de carballo et as táboas de castaño

1459, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 441:

Fernán Gonzalvez de Lamela committed himself to give, in the name of the city council of Ourense, a hundred boards and forty planks, in this way: each one of the boards must be ten feet, of this Fernán García, in long; and in width as it is here consigned from hand to hand; and they should be two inches in thickness; and they should be straight and level and good without holes. And the forty planks must be made in this way: in width as it is consigned, from hand to hand, in high to the third hand; and they must have twelve feet or more in long; and of these planks four must be eighteen feet or more in long, as long as they can be made; and these planks must be made in oak heartwood, and the boards in chestnut.


táboa periódica

(chemistry) periodic table of the chemical elements


substancia

substancias (plural)
substância (alternative)


enerxía

(countable) a particular form of energy, e.g. solar


encaixe

the action of encasing, enclosing, fitting

slot (depression, perforation, or aperture for the reception of a piece fitting in it)


entidade

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin entitātem.


escolarización

gl-noun

escolarización f (plural escolarizacións)


escultor

escultor m (plural escultores, feminine escultora, feminine plural escultoras)

escultores (plural)
escultora (feminine)
escultoras (feminine plural)


espontaneidade

espontaneidade f (plural espontaneidades)


exércitos

plural of exército (“army, host, multitude of soldiers”)


halóxeno

halóxenos (plural)
halógeno (alternative)


faia

From Old Galician-Portuguese faia, from Latin fāgea, nominalization of [materia] fāgea (“beech wood”), derived from Latin fāgus (“beech tree”). Compare Portuguese faia, Asturian faya, Spanish haya, and Catalan faja.

Fagus sylvatica
Fagus sylvatica#Translingual

beech, especially the common beech (Fagus sylvatica)


movemento

From mover + -mento, or perhaps partly based on Medieval Latin mōvimentum, from Latin moveō.


imposibilidade

imposibilidade f (plural imposibilidades)


numeración

numeracións (plural)
numeraçom (alternative)
numeração (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin numerātiōnem.


grosa

alinpa a huña ataa sas rreyzes contra o touello dapar de a coroa do pee ontre o uiuo et a huna morta con puxauante ou con grosa ataa que começe a deitar sange

1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 145:

clean the hoof till its roots at the ankle, by the crown of the toe, in between the living tissue and the dead hoof, with puxavante or rasp, until it begins to draw blood


mariña

Dasmariñas

From Old Galician-Portuguese marinna (“seaside”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin marina.


xeo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese geo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin gelū. Compare Portuguese gelo, Spanish hielo.


condensación

Learned borrowing from Latin condensātiō, condensātiōnem.

lbor

condensaçom (alternative)
condensação (alternative)


evaporación

Learned borrowing from Latin ēvapōrātiōnem.


ebulición

Learned borrowing from Latin ēbullītiōnem.


licuefacción

liquefaçom (alternative)
liquefação (alternative)


codia

From Vulgar Latin *cutina, from cutis (“skin, rind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-t-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
Cognate with Portuguese côdea, Catalan cotna, French couenne.


placa tectónica

gl-noun

placa tectónica f (plural placas tectónicas)


placas tectónicas

placa tectónica
placa tectónica#Galician


heptágono

From Latin heptagonum, from Ancient Greek ἑπτάγωνον (heptágōnon), from ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”).


campión

Borrowed from Italian campione (cf. also French champion), from Medieval Latin or Late Latin campiō, campiōnem (“champion, fighter”), from Frankish *kampijō (or a Lombardic equivalent) from Proto-Germanic *kampijô, based on Latin campus (“level ground”).


chuvia

chuvias (plural)
choiva (alternative)
chuva (alternative)

[ˈt͡ʃu.β̞jɐ]

From Old Galician-Portuguese chuvia, from Latin pluvia. Compare Portuguese chuva and Spanish lluvia.


choiva

Variant of chuvia. Compare dialectal Portuguese chuiva.


chuvia de meteoros

chuvia de meteoros f (plural chuvias de meteoros)


chuvias de meteoros

chuvia de meteoros
chuvia de meteoros#Galician


axente

[aˈʃɛn̪.t̪ɪ]


axencia

[aˈʃɛn̪.θjɐ]

[aˈʃɛn̪.θjɐ]


clementina

Borrowed from French clémentine, from Clément (see English clementine). By surface analysis, Clemente + -ina.


autoridade

From Old Galician-Portuguese autoridade, borrowed from Latin auctōritās, auctōritātem.