alvariça
Old Galician-Portuguese
editEtymology
editDerived from Latin alvearium + -āricia.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editalvariça f
- apiary, place with beehives usually walled so as to protect it from bears and other predators
- 1428, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 186:
- con todos los casarelos que estan en na Touça onde o dito Iohan Afonso monje feso a aluariça
- with all the huts that are in the thicket where the aforementioned monk Xohan Afonso made the apiary
Descendants
edit- Galician: alvariza
References
edit- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aluariça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG