enxame

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese eixame (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin exāmen. Cognate with Portuguese enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame.

Pronunciation

Noun

enxame m (plural enxames)

  1. swarm
    • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
      Vinte cinco ducias D'obos
      eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan
      conque fazer os Formigos,
      e de mel vnha caldeyra,
      que os meus cobos e cortizos
      teñen moy boas entenas;
      porque sairon ogano
      moytos enjames d'abellas.
      Twenty-five dozens of eggs
      I offer her, so that they have the necessary
      to cook the formigos;
      and of honey a cauldron,
      because my skeps and hives
      have very good honeycombs,
      because this year
      many swarms of bees went out
  2. beehive
    • 1411, M. Mar Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 260:
      Item mando a iglesia de (...) hun eyxame que seia para o lume
      Item, I grant to the church of (...) a beehive, for the light

Derived terms

References

  • “eixame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “eixame” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “enxame” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “enxame” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “enxame” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese eixame, from Latin exāmen.

Cognate with Galician enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame. Doublet of exame.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈʃɐ̃.mi/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈʃɐ̃.mi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈʃɐ.me/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈʃɐ.me/
 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
  • Hyphenation: en‧xa‧me

Noun

enxame m (plural enxames)

  1. swarm

Derived terms

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