brío
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese brio (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Perhaps borrowed from Spanish brío, or directly from a substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *brīgos (“strength”),[1] cognate with Welsh bri and Old Irish bríg.
Pronunciation
Noun
brío m (plural bríos)
- vigour, strength, thrust
- 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 674:
- Et cõ grã brio deu hũa espadada ẽno olmo que estaua ante a jgleia de Sam Johan de Burgos
- With great strength he struck with the sword in an elm that was before the church of Saint John in Burgos
- Et cõ grã brio deu hũa espadada ẽno olmo que estaua ante a jgleia de Sam Johan de Burgos
- 1295, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 674:
- (dated) bravery, dignity, arrogance
Derived terms
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “brio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
Spanish
Etymology
Old Occitan briu (“wild”), from Gaulish brīgos (“strength”), from Proto-Celtic *brigos, *brigā (“might, power”). Doublet of fuerte, breña, and burgo.
Noun
brío m (plural bríos)
Descendants
References
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- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
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- Galician terms borrowed from Spanish
- Galician terms derived from Spanish
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- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician dated terms
- Spanish terms derived from Old Occitan
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- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
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