enxame

Galician

Alternative forms

• enxamio

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese eixame (attested in Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin exāmen. Cognate with Portuguese enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enˈʃame̝/

Noun

enxame m (plural enxames)

1. swarm
2. beehive
   • 1411, M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 260:

     Item mando a iglesia de (...) hun eyxame que seia para o lume

     Item, I grant to the church of (...) a beehive, for the light

Derived terms

• enxamear

References

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• “eixame” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “enxame”, 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 Old Galician-Portuguese eixame, from Latin exāmen.

Cognate with Galician enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ẽ.ˈʃɐ.mɨ/
• Hyphenation: en‧xa‧me
• Rhymes: -ami

Noun

enxame m (plural enxames)

1. swarm

Derived terms

• enxamear