embude

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin imbūtum, from trāiectōrium imbutum, perhaps through Occitan.[1] Cognate with Spanish embudo.

Pronunciation

Noun

embude m (plural embudes)

  1. funnel
    Synonym: funil
    • 1402, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Historica, I, 5, page 343:
      It. huun embudo de enbasar viño
      Item a funnel for bottling wine

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “embudo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos