orçuelo

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin hordeolus (“stye”), diminutive of hordeum (“barley”). According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested ca. 1400, in the Glossaries of El Escorial and Toledo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾˈt͡swelo/

Noun

orçuelo (m)

1. stye
   • ca. 1429, Alfonso Chirino, Menor daño de la medicina (Escorial, b.IV.34) 115r:

     Para enel orçuelo que se faze enel ojo que es de fo[r]ma de grano de çeuada frotenlo a menudo con moscas cortadas las cabecas esto faga de dia & tengan ençima del de noche vn pañezuelo de buen diaquilon

     For the stye that grows in one's eye, in the shape of a barley, rub it often with flies after cutting their heads. Do this during the day, and at night have a piece of cloth of good diachylon.

Descendants

• Spanish: orzuelo, ozuelo (non-standard)

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1985) “orzuelo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 317