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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin vervactum (“fallow ground”), from vervagō (“to plough or break fallow land”), of unknown origin.
Cognate with Portuguese barbeito and Spanish barbecho.
Pronunciation
Noun
barbeito m (plural barbeitos)
- fallow
- farmland
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barueyt”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “barbeito”, 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), “barbeito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “barbeito”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Noun
barbeito m (plural barbeitos)
- (agriculture) fallow (tilling of land without sowing it)