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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese ourivez (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin aurificem, from aurum (“gold”) + -fex (“maker”). Cognate with Portuguese ourives.
Pronunciation
Noun
ourive m or f by sense (plural ourives)
- goldsmith (craftsman who makes things out of gold)
1289, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Fueros municipales de Santiago y de su tierra, Madrid: Ediciones Castilla, page 113:auiinça ontre os vigarios e cabido dos canbeadores e os ouriuez- agreement in between the vicars and chapter of the exchangers, and the goldsmiths
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References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ourivez”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “ourive” 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), “ourive”, 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), “ourive”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega