enxebre

Galician

Enxebre ("genuine")

Etymology

From *ex-separe, from Latin separ (“separate, different”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enˈʃeβɾe̝/

Adjective

1. genuine, characteristic; pure-bred
   • 1876, O tío Marcos da Portela:

     é necesario que sepiades que eu son un gallego enxebre; tan enxebre cal os do sigro dazasete, que gastaban monteira

     You mast know that I am a genuine Galician; as genuine as the ones form the seventeenth century, when they wore monteira

   Synonym: castizo

2. unmixed

Related terms

• xebrar
• xebre

References

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• “enxebre” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.