formigos

Galician

Etymology

Attested since 1707. Apparently, from formiga (“ant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [foɾˈmiɣʊs]

Noun

formigos m pl (plural only)

1. (cooking) a fried dessert made with crumbs, eggs and sugar or honey, which was traditionally made on the occasion of a birth
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Vinte cinco ducias D'obos
     eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan
     conque fazer os Formigos,
     e de mel vnha caldeyra,
     que os meus cobos e cortizos
     teñen moy boas entenas;
     porque sairon ogano
     moytos enjames d'abellas.

     Twenty-five dozens of eggs
     I offer her, so that they have the necessary
     to cook the formigos;
     and of honey a cauldron,
     because my skeps and hives
     have very good honeycombs,
     because this year
     many swarms of bees went out

Related terms

• formigo

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “formigos”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “formigos”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “formigos”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN