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alvariza

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Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese alvariça (attested in 1428), from Latin alvearium + -āricia.[1]

Albariza, A Estrada, Galicia

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /albaˈɾiθa/ [ɑl.β̞aˈɾi.θɐ]
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /albaˈɾisa/ [ɑl.β̞aˈɾi.sɐ]

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Noun

alvariza f (plural alvarizas)

  1. apiary, place with beehives
  2. stone wall enclosing an apiary and protecting it from bears and other predators
    Synonym: abellariza
    • 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 wood where the aforementioned monk Xohan Afonso made the albariza

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “álveo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos