bácoro
Galician
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnknown. Attested since the 13th century. Probably from a pre-Latin substrate language, whence also Catalan bacó, Old French bacon (and English bacon).[1] Cognate with Portuguese bácoro.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbácoro m (plural bácoros, feminine bácora, feminine plural bácoras)
- piglet, suckling pig
- 1301, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 52:
- A Eluira, I moyo de pan do nouo, de qual ouueren, e I bacoro
- To Elvira, one modius of grain of the new harvest, whatever species they happen to have there, and one piglet
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bacor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bácoro”, 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), “bácoro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bácoro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “bacón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese
editEtymology
editUnknown. Possible origins include[1]:
- Hebrew בָּחוּר (bakhúr, “Jewish child; piglet”);
- Arabic البُكْس (al-buks, “young camel; veal”);
- Arabic بُكَيْرَة (bukayra), diminutive of بَكْرُن (bakrun, “bull”);
- a Germanic word related to French bacon;
- Medieval Latin bacharus.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: bá‧co‧ro
Noun
editbácoro m (plural bácoros)
- piglet, suckling pig
- Synonym: leitão
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 1932, Antenor Nascentes, Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa.
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- pt:Pigs