topete
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese topete (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French toupet (“tuft of hair on the top of the head”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]topete m (plural topetes)
- tuft of hair on the top of the head; quiff
- eaves
- cornice, ledge
- stone that tops a wall or building
- Synonym: penal
- extreme of a thread
- tongue of a shoe
References
[edit]- “topete” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “topete” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “topete” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “topete” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “topete” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “copa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]topete m (plural topetes)
- quiff (hairstyle whereby the forelock is brushed and/or gelled upward)
- (figurative) arrogant pride
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]topete
- inflection of topetar:
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- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Galician terms borrowed from Old French
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- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Spanish non-lemma forms
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