chumbo

chumbo

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin plumbum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃumbo̝/

Noun

chumbo m (uncountable)

1. lead (metal)
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 421:

     ordenaron que qual quer persona de fora parte ou da çibdade que trouxer estaño ou chonbo ou peltre ou cobre ou latón labrado ou por labrar ou orsella, que non veña con bufuylla, que page do que vender de cada XV mrs, duas brancas

Derived terms

• chumbada

References

• “chumbo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “chumbo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chumbo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chumbo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chumbo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Chemical element
Pb
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Etymology

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin plumbum. Doublet of the semi-learned prumo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃũ.bu/

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃũ.bu]
• Hyphenation: chum‧bo

Noun

chumbo m (plural chumbos)

1. (chemistry) lead(chemical element)
2. lead metal
3. shot, pellet
4. (Portugal, education, colloquial) fail
5. (Portugal, colloquial) rejection

   Só se fala no recente chumbo da proposta de lei. ― All anyone talks about is the recent rejection of the bill.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chumbo.

Related terms

• chumbeiro
• chumbinho
• chumbar
• plúmbeo
• prumo

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Spanish

Etymology

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Noun

chumbo m (plural chumbos)

1. the prickly pear

   Synonym: higo chumbo

Further reading

• “chumbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014