Australia

(geology) Australia (a continent consisting of the land on the Australian tectonic plate, i.e. Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands)


chan

chans (plural)
chá (alternative)
chao (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese chão, from Latin plānum. Compare Portuguese chão, Spanish llano.


serra

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra. Cognate with Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.


corda

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese corda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin chorda (“cord”), from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”).


GPS

Global Positioning System
Global Positioning System

(cartography) GPS, Global Positioning System


polo

Learned borrowing from Latin polus, from Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos).


banda

14th century. From Old French bande, bende, from Frankish *bindā, bindu, from Proto-Germanic *bindō (“band”).


ría

Attested since 1432. From río (“river”).

o dito seu lugar e vila da Proba ena ria dela

1448, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 560:

said place and town of A Pobra [do Caramiñal] in its bay

Et logo comesçou a rreparrar o castello do Est por gardar a terra dos ysmaelitas et normanos, que entrauã porla rria e estragauã toda a terra.

1460, Rui Vasques, Crónica de Santa María de Iria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 135:

And then he began to repair the castle of Oeste, for protecting the country from the Ismaelites and the Norsemen, who used to enter through the bay, then wasting all the land

(geography) Geographical coastal landform where a river valley is partially subducted under the sea level; similar to a firth, although usually translated into English cartography as bay


falla

From Old Galician-Portuguese falla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a Vulgar Latin *fallia, possibly through the intermediate or influence of Old French faille or Old Occitan falha. The geological sense is a more modern one from French.


cabeza

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabeça, from Vulgar Latin capitia, from the neuter plural (reanalyzed as a feminine singular) of Latin capitium, diminutive of caput (“head”). Cognate with Portuguese cabeça and Spanish cabeza.


seo

seos (plural)
sen (alternative Galician Northeastern)
seio (alternative)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sẽo, from Latin sinus. Cognate with Portuguese seio and Spanish seno.


riba

From Old Galician-Portuguese riba, from Latin ripa (“bank”).


bullo

(geography) muddy well, spring or puddle


crosta

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin crusta, from Proto-Indo-European *krustós (“hardened”), from *krews- (“to form a crust, begin to freeze”).

(geology) crust (outermost layer of a planet)


cabo

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabo, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head, source”).


vea

From Old Galician-Portuguese vẽa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vēna. Cognate with Portuguese veia and Spanish vena.


ígneo

gl-adj

ígneo (feminine ígnea, masculine plural ígneos, feminine plural ígneas)

ígnea (feminine)
ígneos (masculine plural)
ígneas (feminine plural)

From Latin igneus (“fiery, hot, on fire, burning; ardent, fervid, vehement”), from ignis (“fire”).


metamórfico

gl-adj

metamórfico (feminine metamórfica, masculine plural metamórficos, feminine plural metamórficas)

metamórfica (feminine)
metamórficos (masculine plural)
metamórficas (feminine plural)


plutónico

plutónico (feminine plutónica, masculine plural plutónicos, feminine plural plutónicas)

plutónica (feminine)
plutónicos (masculine plural)
plutónicas (feminine plural)


Panxea

(geology) Pangaea (a former supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic period and that broke up into Laurasia and Gondwana)


cinabrio

From Latin cinnabaris, from Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari).


baixo

From Old Galician-Portuguese baixo, from Late Latin bassus (“low, short”).


estreito

From Old Galician-Portuguese estreito (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin strictus. Compare Portuguese estreito, Spanish estrecho and French étroit. Doublet of estrito, which was a borrowing.


calcario

calcario (feminine calcaria, masculine plural calcarios, feminine plural calcarias)

calcaria (feminine)
calcarios (masculine plural)
calcarias (feminine plural)


caldeira

From Old Galician-Portuguese caldeyra, from Late Latin caldāria~caldārium (“cooking-pot”), derived from Latin caldus (“hot”). Doublet of caldeiro.


micáceo

gl-adj

micáceo (feminine micácea, masculine plural micáceos, feminine plural micáceas)

micácea (feminine)
micáceos (masculine plural)
micáceas (feminine plural)


penedo

que o dicto martin bezerra e a sua moller façan tirar et derribar todos los penedos et pedras de mota que estan cabo da dicta casa sobre la terra os que poderen tirar con palancos de ferro et de madeyro et a maos de omes et que os tiren da mota et que os lançen contra o rrio et façan a mota chaa

1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should order the toppling of every boulder and every stone of the motte which is by the aforementioned house, with iron levers, and wood levers, and by the hands of men; they should be removed from the motte and thrown into the river, and they should flatten the motte


sistema de posicionamento global

gl-noun

sistema de posicionamento global m (plural sistemas de posicionamento global)

sistemas de posicionamento global (plural)

(cartography) Global Positioning System, GPS


chaira

chairas (plural)
chaeira (alternative)
chaila (alternative)
cheira (alternative)

→ Spanish: chaira

From proto-Galician *chãaira, from Latin plānāria (“planar”), from Latin plānus (“flat”).


serrapio

serrapios (plural)
sarrapio (alternative)

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language. Attested as sarrapio in local Medieval charters since the 10th century.


escoura

From a local Vulgar Latin scauria, with the derivative scaureta already attested in Medieval Latin charters since the 9th century; perhaps from a substrate language, or from Latin scoria under the influence of a substrate.


fondal

From fondo + -al. Compare Italian fondale.


cotarelo

From cótaro + -elo, from a substrate language; compare coto.


lamazal

From Old Galician-Portuguese lamaçal, from *lamaza (from lama, "mud") + -al. Compare Portuguese lamaçal.


serrón

serróns (plural)
serrom (alternative)
serrão (alternative)


choqueiro

/t͡ʃɔˈkejɾʊ/

(geography) a soaked terrain, or a terrain with heavy soil


xadeíta

Compare Spanish jadeíta and Portuguese jadeíte.


freu

Borrowed from Catalan freu (“strait in between two islands”), from Latin fretum.


fondeiro

gl-adj

fondeiro (feminine fondeira, masculine plural fondeiros, feminine plural fondeiras)

fondeira (feminine)
fondeiros (masculine plural)
fondeiras (feminine plural)

(geography) which is at or near the bottom


resalgario

resalgarios (plural)
rosalgar (alternative)

From Medieval Latin resalgar, from Arabic رَهْج اَلْغَار (rahj al-ḡār, literally “cave dust”).

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رَهْج اَلْغَار