espinho

See also: Espinho

Old Galician-Portuguese

espinho m (plural espinhos)

thorn (sharp protective spine of a plant)
Synonym: espinha
(loosely) spike
- 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Cõmo Pyrius tomou porto en Sepeliadoꝛ. Et cõmo Achou A poleus, ſſeu Auoo” (chapter 496), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 187r:
  Et achou hũa coua rredonda ⁊ muyto alta. Et era toda çrcada deſpinos en derredoꝛ.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “espino”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “espinho”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “espino”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /isˈpĩ.ɲu/ [isˈpĩ.j̃u], /esˈpĩ.ɲu/ [esˈpĩ.j̃u]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃˈpĩ.ɲu/ [iʃˈpĩ.j̃u], /eʃˈpĩ.ɲu/ [eʃˈpĩ.j̃u]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /esˈpi.ɲo/

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese espinho, from Latin spīnus (“thorn-bush”).

espinho m (plural espinhos)

thorn (sharp protective spine of a plant)
(by extension) any sharp point
Synonym: ponta
(botany, specifically) a thorn which grows from the woody core of a plant, as opposed to an acúleo, which grows from the epidermis

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