atavaque

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ataˈβake/
  • Rhymes: -ake
  • Hyphenation: a‧ta‧va‧que

Noun

*atavaque m (plural atavaques)

  1. alternative form of atabaque
    • c. 1344, Pedro Afonso, Count of Barcelos, “Dos gozmaães e ponços”, in Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro, volume 3; republished as Portugaliae Monumenta Historica (Scriptores; I), Lisbon: Typis Academicis, 1860, page 187:
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      [E os gritos deles e das trombas e anafiis e daltancaros e atauaques e gaitas asi reteniam que parecia que as montanhas se areygauam de todas partes.]
      And the cry of them and their buisines and trumpets and frame drums and kettledrums and fifes would resound in a way that the mountains seemed to tremble as a whole.
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