laverco
Galician
editEtymology
editUnknown. Perhaps related to Late Latin levaricinus, a fish name attested by Polemius Silvius; whence French lavaret and Portuguese lavareto.[1] The current form has been probably influenced by laverca (“lark”).[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlaverco f (plural lavercos)
References
edit- ^ Adams, J.N. (2007). The regional diversification of Latin, 200 BC-AD 600. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 296. →ISBN.
- ^ Cf. also Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “laverca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “laverco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “lavaret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.