milgranda
Galician
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Etymology
13th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese milgrãada, from Latin mālogrānātum, possibly influenced by mille-grana (“thousand seeds”). Cognate with Portuguese milgrada; cf. also Catalan magrana.
Pronunciation
Noun
milgranda f (plural milgrandas)
- (dated) pomegranate (fruit)
- Synonym: granada
- (dated) pomegranate (Punica granatum)
- Synonym: milgrandeira
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References
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- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “milgr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Template:R:DDLG
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