alvariça

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Derived from Latin alvearium + -āricia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alβaˈɾit͡sa/

Noun

alvariça f

1. apiary, place with beehives usually walled so as to protect it from bears and other predators
   • 1428, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 186:

     con todos los casarelos que estan en na Touça onde o dito Iohan Afonso monje feso a aluariça

     with all the huts that are in the thicket where the aforementioned monk Xohan Afonso made the apiary

Descendants

• Galician: alvariza

References

• “aluariça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.