alvariça
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Derived from Latin alvearium + -āricia.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
alvariça f
- apiary, place with beehives usually walled so as to protect it from bears and other predators
- 1428, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 186:
- con todos los casarelos que estan en na Touça onde o dito Iohan Afonso monje feso a aluariça
- with all the huts that are in the thicket where the aforementioned monk Xohan Afonso made the apiary
Descendants edit
- Galician: alvariza
References edit
- “aluariça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.