vexilo

Galician

Partes dunha pluma:
1. vexilo (vane)
2. raque
3. barbas
4. hiporraque
5. cálamo

Etymology

From Latin vexillum (“flag, banner”).

Noun

vexilo m (plural vexilos)

1. (ornithology) vane (of a feather)

Related terms

• vexiloloxía

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin vexillum (“flag, banner”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vekˈsi.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vekˈsi.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vekˈsi.lo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɛˈksi.lu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɛˈksi.lu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɛˈksi.lu/

• Hyphenation: ve‧xi‧lo

Noun

vexilo m (plural vexilos)

1. (Ancient Rome) vexillum (banner carried by a legion)
2. vexillum (a flag, banner or standard)
   • 1965, Congresso Nacional do Brasil, Anais da Câmara dos Deputados, volume 26, Departamente de Imprensa Nacional, page 822:

     […] ; nos balsões imperiais do Brasil, na primeira bandeira da Republica e nos vexilos dos inconfidentes mineiros de 1789 e dos revolucionários pernambucanos de 1817.

     […] ; on the imperial flags of Brazil, on the first flag of the Republic and on the banners Minas Gerais rebels and of the Pernambuco revolutionaries of 1817.

   • 2003, E. Vilhena de Moraes, O duque de ferro: novo aspectos da figura de Caxias, Biblioteca do Exército, page 20:

     Asperge, em seguida, com a agua lustral os vexilos, e, assentado no sólio, mitra na cabeça, os entrega ao soberano exclamando: […]

     He then sprinkles the banners with holy water and, [while] sitting on the throne [with a] mitre on his head, hands them to the sovereign and declaring: […]

   • 2014 (originally 1821), Almeida Garrett, Catão, Edições Vercial, page 130:

     Nenhum amava a liberdade, nenhum a served; mas ambos a arvoraram em seus vexilos para capa de paixões, de ódios, de ambições, de caprichos pessoais.

     Neither loved freedom; neither served it; but both displayed it on their banners as a disguise for their passions, their hatreds, their ambitions, their personal fancies.

   • 2017, Dante Alighieri (translator: Xavier Pinheiro), A Divina Comédia, Nova Fronteira, page 99:

     Aparecem os vexilos do rei do Inferno.

     The banners of the king of Hell appear.

3. (botany) vexillum (the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower)
4. (ornithology) vane (flattened web-like part of a feather)

Further reading

• “vexilo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vexillum (“flag, banner”).

Noun

vexilo m (plural vexilos)

1. (ornithology) vane (of a feather)