pombo

See also: Pombo

Galician

Pombo or torcaza

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *poombo, Old Galician-Portuguese *paombo, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (“dark-colored, gray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔmbo̝/

Noun

pombo m (plural pombos)

1. wood pigeon

   Synonyms: torgás, trocaza

Related terms

• pomba
• pombal
• Pombeiro
• pombela
• Pombo

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “poomb”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pombo”, 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), “pombo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pombo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese *poombo, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (“dark-colored, gray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpõ.bu/

• Hyphenation: pom‧bo

Noun

pombo m (plural pombos, feminine pomba, feminine plural pombas)

1. dove, pigeon

Derived terms

• pombinho
• pombo comum
• pombo-bravo
• pombo-correio
• pombo-das-rochas
• pombo-doméstico
• pombo-passageiro
• pombo-torcaz

 

Related terms

• pomba
• pombal

 

Further reading

• “pombo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024