bigornia
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Bigornia ("anvil") 
incus
See also: bigòrnia
Galician
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin bicornia (“two-horned”). Compare Portuguese bigorna.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔɾnja
- Hyphenation: bi‧gor‧nia
Noun
bigornia f (plural bigornias)
- anvil
- 1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Xacinto e Catriña:
- Non me veñas Xacinto con liornas / A que eu non lle dou creto, / Que esa labia éche o abouxo das bigornas
- Don't come to me with palavers, which I don't give credit; because this glibness of yours is the din of the anvils
- (anatomy) the incus bone
- sea hare (Aplysia punctate)
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bigornia”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “bigorna”, 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), “bigornia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bigornia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish bigornia, bicornia, from a Vulgar Latin *bicŏrnĭa (“anvil”), from Latin bicornis (“two-horned”) nominalized in the feminine with -a. Cognate with Galician bigorna, French bigorne, early modern Italian bicornia, Andalusian, Moroccan and Algerian Arabic بقرنية (buqurnīya).
Noun
bigornia f (plural bigornias)
Usage notes
- Significantly less commonly used than yunque.
Related terms
References
- Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1984) “bigornia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 583
Further reading
- “bigornia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10