lamprea

Galician

Lampreas at the marketplace

Fishing lampreys

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin lamprēda, naupreda, of obscure, maybe Gaulish, origin. Cognate with Portuguese lampreia, Spanish lamprea, French lamproie, Italian lampreda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamˈpɾea̝/

Noun

lamprea f (plural lampreas)

1. lamprey
   • 1274, “Documentos antiguos de Galicia”, in M. Sponer, editor, Anuari de l'Oficina Románica de Lingüística i Literatura, Barcelona, 7, page 76:

     Outroſi nos dardes cadá ãno por kalendas mayaſ una duzea de bonoſ [s]auééſ τ outra duzea de lanpreas

     Also, you shall give to us yearly, by the calends of May, a dozen good shads and another dozen lampreys

References

• “lamprea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lampre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “lamprea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lamprea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lamprea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *lamprēda (attested as Medieval Latin lampreda), of uncertain origin: possibly from Late Latin lampetra, from a combination of Latin lambō (“to lick”) and petra (“stone”). Compare Italian lampreda, French lamproie and Portuguese lampreia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamˈpɾea/ [lãmˈpɾe.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: lam‧pre‧a

Noun

lamprea f (plural lampreas)

1. lamprey (a fish)

Further reading

• “lamprea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014