loriga

Galician

Etymology

From Latin lōrīca (“coat of mail, breastplate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loˈɾiɣa̝/

Noun

loriga f (plural lorigas)

1. mail, chain mail, scale mail
   • 1290, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 139:

     Item mando a ma loriga τ aſ maſ geoleyraſ a Martin Eaneſ, meu ſobrjno

     Item, I send my mail and my poleyns to Martin Anes, my nephew

2. bard (armor for a horse)

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “loriga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lōrīca (“coat of mail, breastplate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loˈɾiɡa/ [loˈɾi.ɣ̞a]

Noun

loriga f (plural lorigas)

1. mail, chain mail
2. bard (armor for a horse)

Related terms

• lorigado

Further reading

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