alpendre

Galician edit

An alpendre shelters an image, basilica of Santa María a Maior, Pontevedra

Church of Santa María Salomé, Santiago, with its alpendre ("porch")

Attested since the 13th century. Probably from Latin appendix (“addition”), or either from a Celtic term akin to Gaulish *talopennos (“gable”): compare Occitan alapens (“penthouse”).^[1]

alpendre m (plural alpendres)

(dated) porch
- 1267, Margot Sponer (ed.), "Documentos antiguos de Galicia", Anuari de l'Oficina Románica de Lingüística i Literatura, 7, doc L29:
  que fazan una egreſya con ſou alpendere
  they shall build a church with its porch
a penthouse built onto the side of another building; lean-to
shed

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

Inherited from Latin appendere (“to hang”), from ap- + pendō (“to hang”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin”).

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈpẽ.dɾi/ [aʊ̯ˈpẽ.dɾi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /awˈpẽ.dɾe/ [aʊ̯ˈpẽ.dɾe]

alpendre m (plural alpendres)

terrace (platform that extends outwards from a building)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alpendre
overhang (portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building)
Synonyms: telheiro, coberta