gobelete

Galician

Etymology

From French gobelet, from Old French gobel, from Old Occitan gobel (“to swallow up”), from Gaulish *gobbos, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“muzzle, snout, beak”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵoph₃o- (“eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡoβeˈlete̝/

Noun

gobelete m (plural gobeletes)

1. goblet, cup
2. beaker (ceramic drinking vessel with handles)
3. basin (for dice)

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gobelete”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega