billardo

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1418. From Old French billard (“rod, staff”), diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), probably ultimately from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Doublet of billar and billarda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈʎaɾðo̝/

Noun

billardo m (plural billardos)

1. a small faggot (bundle of sticks)
   • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 94:

     Iten, billardos oyto a dineiro.

     Item, faggots [sticks?], a coin for each eight

   Synonym: feixe

Related terms

• billa
• billar
• billarda

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “billardo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “billard”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “billardo”, 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), “billardo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “billardo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /biˈʝaɾdo/ [biˈʝaɾ.ð̞o]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /biˈʝaɾdo/ [biˈʝaɾ.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /biˈʎaɾdo/ [biˈʎaɾ.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /biˈʃaɾdo/ [biˈʃaɾ.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /biˈʒaɾdo/ [biˈʒaɾ.ð̞o]

• Rhymes: -aɾdo
• Syllabification: bi‧llar‧do

Noun

billardo m (plural billardos)

1. billiard