cambito

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From *cambittus, from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *kambos (twisted, crooked), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱambos, *(s)kambos (crooked).

Pronunciation

Noun

cambito m (plural cambitos)

  1. hook (specifically, a wooden hook, or a naturally hooked stick)
    Synonyms: gancho, garabito
    • 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 88:
      Et tomarõ das láás dos gãados et dos cabelos das bestas pera fazer delo de vestir, et começarõ de fazer das lãas lyñas et torçerlas cõ cambitos de fustes torçidos em cada hũ dos cabos, et ajuntãdo hũas lyñas cõ as outras enlaçauanas hũas ontre as outras, et teçiam las cõ os dedos et cõ fustes cõmo mellor podiam
      And they took of the wools of the cattle and of the hairs of the horses for making with it wearables; and they began by making threads of the wools, twisting them with hooks of woods crooked in every extreme; and joining some threads with others they linked one in another, and they wove them with their fingers and with woods as well as they could
  2. a double hooked implement used for attaching a tool or a pair of oxen to a yoke
    Synonym: gabito

References

Latin

Verb

cambītō

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of cambiō