esprego
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin spīculum, with metathesis of /l/. Compare Aragonese espligo, Catalan espígol.
Noun
[edit]esprego m (plural espregos)
- lavender (Lavandula angustifolia)
- Synonym: lavanda
References
[edit]- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “espliego”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 750
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esprego”, 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), “esprego”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega