arco de la vieja
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Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Portuguese arco da velha. Compare Galician arco da vella, Mirandese arco de la bielha, Portuguese arco da velha, Leonese and Asturian arcu la vieya.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]arco de la vieja m (plural arcos de la vieja)
- (Canary Islands, Louisiana) rainbow
- Synonym: arcoíris
Further reading
[edit]- arco de la vieja at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- “arco”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española, Real Academia Española, 2021