veriño

Galician

Etymology

From carballo veriño, from carballo (“oak”) and a derivative of Latin verus (“true”): "true oak".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈɾiɲo/ [beˈɾi.ɲʊ]
• Rhymes: -iɲo
• Hyphenation: ve‧ri‧ño

Noun

veriño m (plural veriños)

1. English oak (Quercus robur)
   • 1259, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 19:

     vendo una mia leira que ayo in termio de Açoreiros, á qual chaman da Carualla Viriña

     I sell a field of mine that I have in Azoreiros, which is named field of the Common Oak

Related terms

• carballo veriño (“oak”)

 

References

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