pergamino

• pargamino, porgamino, pregamino

Inherited from Late Latin *pergamīnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Περγαμηνὴ (διφθέρα) (Pergamēnḕ (diphthéra), “Pergamene hide”), from Πέργαμον (Pérgamon) + -ηνός (-ēnós).

pergamino f (plural pergaminos)

1. parchment (writing material made of animal skin)
2. (loosely) any similar writing material
   • 1271 December 17, Alfonso X of Castile, [Carta], Murcia; republished as “Letter 42”, in Colección diplomática medieval do Arquivo da Catedral de Mondoñedo, page 100:

     Et porque esta carta era en / porgamino de panno et se rompia el obispo de Mondonnedo sobredicho pediome que ge la / mandase faser en porgamino de cuero.

     And because this letter was on a cloth “parchment” and it was ripping itself, the aforementioned bishop of Mondoñedo asked me to order it to be made on a hide parchment.

• Spanish: pergamino

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “pergamino”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 391
• “pergamino”, in Vocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish), Murcia: University of Murcia, 2013–2024

Inherited from Old Spanish pergamino, from Late Latin *pergamīnus. Compare Portuguese pergaminho.

• IPA^(key): /peɾɡaˈmino/ [peɾ.ɣ̞aˈmi.no]

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• Rhymes: -ino
• Syllabification: per‧ga‧mi‧no

pergamino m (plural pergaminos)

1. parchment (material, made from a polished animal skin, used like paper for writing)

• “pergamino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025