giarda
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic جَرَذ (jaraḏ). Compare Medieval Latin zarda.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]giarda f (plural giarde)
- (veterinary medicine) spavin
- Synonym: giardone
- 1605 [1304–1309], “Delle infermità de’ cavalli, e cure loro [On the illnesses of horses, and cure thereof]” (chapter 10), Libro nono - Di tutti gli animali, che si nutricano in villa [Ninth book - On all the animals which are fed on the farm], in Bastiano de' Rossi, transl., Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise on agriculture][1], Florence: Cosimo Giusti, translation of Rūrālium commodōrum librī XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi (in Medieval Latin), page 408:
- [il cavallo] alcuna volta nasce con giarde
- [original: [equus] quandōque nāscitur cum zardīs]
- [the horse] is sometimes born with spavins
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “giarda1”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 6 fio–graul, UTET, 1970, page 768bc
- giarda1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- giarda in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Etymology 2
[edit]Perhaps from a metaphorical meaning of the above.
Noun
[edit]giarda f (plural giarde)
References
[edit]- “giarda2”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, volume 6 fio–graul, UTET, 1970, page 768c
- giarda2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- giarda in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
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