azarella

Galician

Etymology

From old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese zarello (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), perhaps from a diminutive of Latin lacer. Compare modern Galician cerello (“tatter”).

Noun

azarella m (plural azarellas)

1. (historical) a certain quality or item of cloth
   • 1474, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 67:

     Iten, preçaron duas toallas e hua azarella e hua sauaa e dous cadillos e hun saquo e hua manta vella e hua azarella em oytenta maravedis

     Item, the apprised two towels and an azarella and a shit and two cadillos and a sack and an old blanket and a azarella in eighty maravedis

References

• “azarello” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “zarel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “azarella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.