alvariza

Galician

FWOTD – 12 February 2018

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese alvariça (attested in 1428), from Latin alvearium + -āricia.

Albariza, A Estrada, Galicia

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /albaˈɾiθa/ [ɑl.β̞aˈɾi.θɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /albaˈɾiθa/ [ɑl.β̞aˈɾi.θɐ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /albaˈɾisa/ [ɑl.β̞aˈɾi.sɐ]

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• Rhymes: -iθa

• Rhymes: -iθa
• Rhymes: -isa

Noun

alvariza f (plural alvarizas)

1. apiary, place with beehives
2. stone wall enclosing an apiary and protecting it from bears and other predators

   Synonym: abellariza

   • 1428, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 186:

     con todos los casarelos que estan en na Touça onde o dito Iohan Afonso monje feso a aluariça

     with all the huts that are in the wood where the aforementioned monk Xohan Afonso made the albariza

Derived terms

• Albariza

References

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