cóbado

Galician

Cóbado ("elbow")

Alternative forms

• cóbedo, códabo

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese covedo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cubitum. Compare Portuguese côvado and Spanish codo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoβa̝ðo̝/

Noun

cóbado m (plural cóbados)

1. elbow
   • c1300, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 568:

     Et tam grande foy a morteydade que en aquel dia fez enos mouros que lli corria o sangui (o sangui) pelos couedos ajuso

     And the mortality he caused that day on the Moors was such that blood was running from his elbows down

   Synonym: cotobelo

2. cubit
   • 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 413:

     Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo

     Item, the aforementioned Gonzalo Fernandez and Gonzalo Ferreiro committed themselves to bring, for the construction of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beams of oak, each one at least twenty-seven cubits long

3. cabbage stalk

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “couedo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cóbado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN