cortizo
Appearance
See also: Cortizo
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested since the 14th century (cortiço). From cortiza (“bark”), from Latin cortex.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cortizo m (plural cortizos)
- beehive made with a section of cork
- 1342, E. Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 415:
- mando os cortiços e as outras coussas mobiles todas a Pero eanes meu marido
- I bequeath the beehives and all the other movable property to Pedro Yanes, my husband
- 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
- Vinte cinco ducias D'obos
eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan
conque fazer os Formigos,
e de mel vnha caldeyra,
que os meus cobos e cortizos
teñen moy boas entenas;
porque sairon ogano
moytos enjames d'abellas.- Twenty-five dozens of eggs
I offer her, so that they have the necessary
to cook the formigos;
and of honey a pot,
because my skeps and hives
have very good honeycombs,
because this year
many swarms of bees went out
- Twenty-five dozens of eggs
- cork oak (Quercus suber)
- Synonym: sobreira
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cortiço”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cortizo”, 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), “cortizo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cortizo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN