mármore

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See also: marmore and Marmore

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese marmor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin marmor, marmore, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros, “marble”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mármore m (plural mármores)

marble (material)
- 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 291:
  os troyanos tynam sua villa moy bem gardada, et dizervos ey cõmo elles tynã a villa moy forte: os muros dela erã moy fortes et moyto altos et nõ de tapea, ante eram de marmore jalde et negro et vermello et vis
  the Trojans had their town very well defended, and I'll tell you how they had their town so strong: their walls very strong and very tall, and made not of clay, but of yellow and black and red and brown marble

References

“marmor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“marmor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“mármore” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“mármore” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

mármore

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese marmor, from Vulgar Latin *marmŏrem, from Latin marmor n, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros, “marble”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʁ.mo.ɾi/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ.mo.ɾi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmaʁ.mo.ɾi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɻ.mo.ɾe/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ.mu.ɾɨ/

Hyphenation: már‧mo‧re

Noun

mármore m (plural mármores)

marble (crystalline limestone)
marble sculpture

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mármore.

Hypernyms

(marble stone): pedra, rocha
(marble sculpture): escultura, estátua

Coordinate terms

(marble stone): arenito, ardósia, basalto, calcário, granito, obsidiana
(marble sculpture): bronze

Derived terms

de mármore

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