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See also: cribó
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
cribo (plural cribos)
- Any of various snakes in the genus Drymarchon.
- 1871, Harper's Magazine, volume 43, page 844:
- It is a singular fact that this snake, so fatal to man, has no power against another West Indian snake, almost equally common, namely, the cribo.
Anagrams[edit]
Asturian[edit]
Verb[edit]
cribo
Galician[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Attested since circa 1300. From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cribum, dissimilated form of Latin cribrum attested in some late glosses, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to seive”). Cognate with Portuguese crivo and Spanish criba.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cribo m (plural cribos)
- (agriculture) winnow
- Synonym: xoeira
- sieve
- Synonym: peneira
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 264:
- furarõ aquel vaso todo porlo fondo [como] criuo
- They pierced that vase all by its bottom as a sieve
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “criuo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cribo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cribo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cribo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
cribo
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
cribo
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