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Galician
Etymology
Attested since 1417 (corvelo). Perhaps from corvo (“crow”) + -elo. Compare French corbeau.
Pronunciation
Noun
corbelo f (plural corbelos)
- European pollock (Pollachius pollachius, younger specimens)
- 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:
- Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas a quatro dineiros cada libra
- Item, the pound of young pollocks and of mullets and of large seabasses and of seabasses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams , four diñeiros each pound
- Synonyms: abadexo, badexo (larger specimens)
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “corvelo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “corbelo”, 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), “corbelo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “corbelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN