billardo

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1418. From Old French billard (“rod, staff”), diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), probably ultimately from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Doublet of billar and billarda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈʎaɾðo̝/

Noun

billardo m (plural billardos)

1. a small faggot (bundle of sticks)
   • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 94:

     Iten, billardos oyto a dineiro.

     Item, faggots [sticks?], a coin for each eight

   Synonym: feixe

Related terms

• billa
• billar
• billarda

References

• “billardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “billard” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “billardo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “billardo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “billardo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /biˈʝaɾdo/ [biˈʝaɾ.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /biˈʝaɾdo/ [biˈʝaɾ.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /biˈʎaɾdo/ [biˈʎaɾ.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /biˈʃaɾdo/ [biˈʃaɾ.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /biˈʒaɾdo/ [biˈʒaɾ.ð̞o]

• Rhymes: -aɾdo
• Syllabification: bi‧llar‧do

Noun

billardo m (plural billardos)

1. billiard