cebro
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese ezebro, from Vulgar Latin *eciferus (“fool, wild ass, donkey”), from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”), from equus (“horse”) and ferus (“wild”). Cognate with Portuguese zebro.
Modern toponyms as Cebreiro are attested as Cebrario, Zebrario, Ecebrario and Ezebrario in local High Middle Ages Latin documents.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cebro m (plural cebros)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin acerbus, probably influenced by the previous etymology.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cebro m (uncountable)
References edit
- “ezebro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “zebr” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cebro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- Nores, Carlos, Morales Muñiz, Arturo, Llorente Rodríguez, Laura, Bennett, E. Andrew, Geigl, Eva-María (2015 June) “The Iberian zebro: what kind of a beast was it?”, in Anthropozoologica, volume 50, number 1, , retrieved 20 February 2018, pages 21–32