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Galician
Etymology
Attested since the 15th century. At face value, Ambroa + -esa, "from Ambroa"; or else from the same Germanic origin that French framboise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ambɾoˈesa̝/, /ambɾuˈesa̝/
Noun
ambroesa m (plural ambroesas)
- a superior quality variety of cherries and cherry trees
- 1497, Maia, Clarinda de Azevedo (ed.) (1986): História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 124:
I rent to you every walnut tree and cherry tree, with the exception of the ambroesas variety
todas las nugueras τ çerderas vos aforo a ſaluo as anbroeſas- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonym: cereixa ambroesa
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “anbroe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ambroesa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ambroesa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ambroesa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cereixa ambroesa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN