aramio

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested from the 14th century. From a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic (compare Irish ar (“tillage”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾamjo̝/

Noun

aramio m (plural aramios)

1. cropland, farmland

   Synonym: agro

   • 1404, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites, editor, Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón, Lugo: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Diputación Provincial de Lugo, page 116:

     aforámosvos mais dous terreos darameo que jazen en Basillãõ

     we rent to you two fields of cropland which lie in Basillao

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾamjo̝/

Noun

aramio m (plural aramios)

1. Alternative form of arame
2. (figurative, dated) telegraph

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “arameo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aramio”, 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), “aramio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega