estornillo

Galician

Estorniño or estornillo

Alternative forms

• estorniño, tornillo

Etymology

13th century. From a diminutive (with -illo, from Latin -culus) of Latin sturnus (“starling”). Cognate with Portuguese estorninho and Spanish estornino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /estoɾˈniɲo̝/

Noun

estornillo m (plural estornillos)

1. starling

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “estornillo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estornillo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estorniño”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN