alpendre

Galician

An alpendre shelters an image, basilica of Santa María a Maior, Pontevedra

Church of Santa María Salomé, Santiago, with its alpendre ("porch")

Etymology

Attested since the 13th century. Probably from Latin appendix (“addition”), or either from a Celtic term akin to Gaulish *talopennos (“gable”): confer Occitan alapens (“penthouse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈpendɾe̝/, /alˈpɛndɾe̝/

Noun

alpendre m (plural alpendres)

1. (dated) porch
   • 1267, Margot Sponer (ed.), "Documentos antiguos de Galicia", Anuari de l'Oficina Románica de Lingüística i Literatura, 7, doc L29:

     que fazan una egreſya con ſou alpendere

     they shall build a church with its porch

2. a penthouse built onto the side of another building.
3. shed.

Synonyms

• (penthouse): combarro, cuberto, pendello
• (shed): alboio

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “alpend”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “alpendre”, 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin appendere, present active infinitive of appendō (“I hang”), from ap- + pendō (“I hang”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)pen(d)- (“to pull; to spin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw.ˈpẽ.dɾi/
• IPA^(key): /aw.ˈpẽ.dɾe/

Noun

alpendre m (plural s)

1. terrace (platform that extends outwards from a building)
2. overhang (portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building)

Synonyms

• (terrace): see Thesaurus:alpendre
• (overhang): telheiro, coberta