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Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (standard) /ˈθɛɾbiɲo/
- IPA(key): (seseo) /ˈsɛɾbiɲo/
- Rhymes: -ɛɾbiɲo
- Hyphenation: cer‧vi‧ño
Etymology 1
14th century. From Latin cervīnus (“tawny”).
Adjective
cerviño (feminine cerviña, masculine plural cerviños, feminine plural cerviñas)
- (dated) tawny
- 1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de Notas de Álvaro Afonso, doc. 90:
os quaes roçiins era huun delles ven preto con hun signal enna testa et ho outro ben çerbyño con huna mancha enna testa- one of that horses was really dark, with a signal in his front, and the other was tawny with a spot in his front
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From cervo (“deer”) + -iño (“little”).
Noun
cerviño m (plural cerviños)
- fawn (young deer)
References
- “cerviño” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cerviño”, 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), “cerviño”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega