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Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Derived from Latin alvearium + -āricia.
Pronunciation
Noun
alvariça f
- apiary, place with beehives usually walled so as to protect it from bears and other predators
1428, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 186:con todos los casarelos que estan en na Touça onde o dito Iohan Afonso monje feso a aluariça- with all the huts that are in the thicket where the aforementioned monk Xohan Afonso made the apiary
Descendants
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aluariça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG