llaue
Old Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin clāvis (“key”), from Proto-Italic *klāwis, of ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin. Cognate with English clef.
Noun
[edit]llaue f (plural llaues)
- (countable) key (unlocker)
- 1443, Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, chapter XXIV, in Cvruiosa y Ocvlta Filosofia. Primera, y Segvnda Parte de las marauillas de las naturaleza, examinadas en varias queſtiones naturales.[1], page 120:
- COn eſto juzgo que quedã baſtantemente acreditados los Rolos naturales de la tierra, y ſu virtud magnetica, que es la llaue que nos abrirà las puertas de la naturaleza, donde amontonò tantos teſoros de admiracion.
- With this I judge that they keep the land’s natural roles sufficiently accredited, as well as its magnetic vertue, which is the key that shall open nature’s doors for us, whence it heaped so many admirable treasures.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “llaue”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 314
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