gafo
See also: gafó
Galician
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Galician-Portuguese gafo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Either from gafa (“hook”), from Old Occitan gafar (“to grab”); or from Arabic.[1][2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgafo m (plural gafos, feminine gafa, feminine plural gafas)
Adjective
editgafo (feminine gafa, masculine plural gafos, feminine plural gafas)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gafo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gaf”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gafo”, 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), “gafo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “gafa, gafo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- ^ “gaffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology 2
editVerb
editgafo
Old Spanish
editEtymology
editUncertain.
Adjective
editgafo (feminine singular gafa, masculine plural gafos, feminine plural gafas)
- leprous
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 78r:
- Eſte herodes Murio mala muerte deuẏno gafo de pues por la grãt pudor q̃ ſalẏo del ⁊ nõ lo podie ſofrir. el Miſmo ſe mato cõ .j. guchiello.
- This Herod died a bad death. He became leprous [and] then, because of the great shame which he displayed and could not bear, he killed himself with a knife.
Synonyms
editDescendants
edit- Spanish: gafo
Spanish
editAdjective
editgafo (feminine gafa, masculine plural gafos, feminine plural gafas)
Noun
editgafo m (plural gafos, feminine gafa, feminine plural gafas)
Verb
editgafo
Further reading
edit- “gafo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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