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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese çopo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), ultimately probably onomatopoeic. Compare Spanish zopo and Italian zoppo.[1]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -opo
- Hyphenation: zo‧po
Adjective
zopo (feminine zopa, masculine plural zopos, feminine plural zopas)
- bow-legged; twisted
- Synonym: trenco
1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 155:Cauallo que manqía de tras ou en andando non se fica senon na punta do pee postrimeiro, et sem outro dobramento enderença et alça o pee çopo dereitamente aqueste sentese da juntura que he o noo de sobre llo trauadoyro.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- lame
- Synonym: coxo
- clumsy
- Synonyms: zoupeiro, zoupón
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “çopo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çopo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “zopo”, 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), “zopo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “zopo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN