trobo

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Catalan[edit]

Verb[edit]

trobo

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of trobar

Galician[edit]

two types of traditional Galician trobos

Etymology[edit]

The word is documented in local Medieval Latin as trobano, whence also its cognate Asturian truébanu. From a substrate language, probably from Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *treb- (settlement) and akin to Proto-Celtic *trebno- (room, house).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

trobo m (plural trobos)

  1. beehive; skep
  2. wooden container made from a hollow trunk

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “troj”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos