áncora

See also: ancora, àncora, âncora, ancorà, and ancoră

Galician

áncora ("anchor")

Alternative forms

• âncora (reintegrationist)
• angla

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ancora (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ancora, a probable borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). Cognate with Portuguese âncora, Spanish ancla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaŋkʊɾɐ]

Noun

áncora f (plural áncoras)

1. (nautical) anchor
   • 1433, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 53:

     con estes aparellos seguintes, conven a saber: tres ancoras et hũu arpeo de ferro con seus eixos et hũa gindaresa de fio de canavo

     with the following gear, that is: three anchors and one grappling hook of iron, with their windlasses, and a hawser made of hemp

Related terms

• ancoradoiro
• ancorar
• ancoraxe

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ancora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ancora”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ancora”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “áncora”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “áncora”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “áncora”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ancora. Doublet of ancla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈankoɾa/ [ˈãŋ.ko.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ankoɾa
• Syllabification: án‧co‧ra

Noun

áncora f (plural áncoras)

1. (nautical) anchor

   Synonym: ancla

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el áncora, un áncora

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms

• ancorar

 

Further reading

• “áncora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014