esterco

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese esterco, from Latin stercus, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terḱ-o-. Cognate with Breton stroñk (“excrements”) and Welsh trwnc (“urine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈteɾko̝/

Noun

esterco m (plural estercos)

1. dung, manure
   • 1927, X. Lesta Meis, Estebo, A Coruña: Lar, page 106:

     O Carpulla andaba á bosta. Cun cesto de aro colgado debaixo do brazo, iba e viña por camiños e carreiros recollendo canta alcontraba para facer esterco

     Carpulla ("Hunger") used to search for dung. With a hoop basked under the arm, he came and went on the roads and ways, picking up as much as he could find to make manure

   Synonyms: cuito, estrume

Derived terms

• estercar
• esterqueira
• esterqueiro

Related terms

• estercoar

References

• “esterco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “sterc” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “esterco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “esterco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “esterco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese esterco, from Latin stercus.

Noun

esterco m (plural estercos)

1. dung, manure

   Synonym: estrume

Derived terms

• estercar
• esterqueira

Further reading

• “esterco” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.