canivete

Galician

Etymology

15th century. Borrowed from Old French cnivet (“little knife”), from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ- (“to pinch”).

The meaning "cane","rocket", was transferred from the group cana, canavela, canaveira, "cane".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaniˈβetɪ]

Noun

canivete m (plural canivetes)

1. knife, penknife
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 89:

     Quando as ditas llandoas creçeren asy como Nozes, ou mais ou menos, traua dellas llogo et apretaas et fendeas ao llongo con canyuete agudo

     when these growths become big as nuts, give or take, grab them readily and squeeze them and cut them open lengthwise with a sharp knife

   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 172:

     e hus canibetes novos

     and some new knives

2. cane
   1. rocket
   2. (euphemistic, humorous) sexual intercourse

Derived terms

• botar un canivete (“to have sex”, literally “to throw a rocket”)

Related terms

• Canive

References

• “canibete” 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), “canivete”, 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), “canivete”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canivete”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From to Old French canivet (“little knife”), from Frankish *knīf (“knife”), from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”), from *knīpaną (“to pinch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gneybʰ-. Compare French canif.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.niˈvɛ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.niˈvɛ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.niˈvɛ.te/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.niˈvɛ.tɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.niˈvɛ.tɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.niˈbɛ.tɨ/ [kɐ.niˈβɛ.tɨ]

• Hyphenation: ca‧ni‧ve‧te

Noun

canivete m (plural canivetes)

1. pocketknife, penknife

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Kanivett

Hypernyms

• faca