escrófula
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested since 1409. From Latin scrōfula (“little sow”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
escrófula f (plural escrófulas)
- (pathology) scrofula (a form tuberculosis)
- 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 157:
- aas vezes nace con algũas sobeg[e]dũes de carne ou de landoas que se geeran ontre o coiro e a carne, e son chamadas landoas o[u] [e]scrofulas, que dizen porcas
- sometimes it grows with some excess of flesh or of glands that are generated in between the skin and the flesh, and they are called glands or scrofulas, which they call porcas
References edit
- “escrófula” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “escrófula” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “escrófula” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin scrōfula.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
escrófula f (plural escrófulas)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
escrófula f (plural escrófulas)
Further reading edit
- “escrófula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014