hipocrás
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French ipocras, after Medieval Latin vinum Hippocraticum (“Hippocrates's wine”), because it was filtered through a Hippocratic sleeve.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hipocrás m (plural hipocrases)
- hippocras
- 1777, Diego Cernadas y Castro, Arcos mio:
- que n'o Hipocràs non pases
deo medio neto.- on hippocras
don't drink past half a pint
- on hippocras
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “hipocrás”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega