rodaballo

Galician

Rodaballo (Scophthalmus maximus)

Etymology

Attested since 1417. From Proto-Celtic *rotos (“wheel”) + *ballos ("wheel-sack").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roðaˈβaʎo̝/

Noun

rodaballo m (plural rodaballos)

1. turbot
   • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Iten a libra dos rodavallos et do mero a seis dineiros cada libra

     Item, the pound of turbots and of groupers, six diñeiros each pound

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rodavallo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rodaballo”, 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), “rodaballo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rodaballo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Spanish

Noun

rodaballo m (plural rodaballos)

1. turbot

Hypernyms

• pez plano

Further reading

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