fonguenno
Old Spanish
FWOTD – 26 June 2017
Etymology
From fongo (“mushroom”) + -enno.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɸõŋˈɡe.ɲo]
Adjective
fonguenno m (feminine fonguenna, masculine plural fonguennos, feminine plural fonguennas)
- mushroomlike, fungiform
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50v.
- DEl .vi. grado del ſigno de libra, es la piedra aque dizé fonguenna […] Et la ſu forma es atal como fongo, ¬ dend a ella eſte nombre.
- Of the sixth degree of the sign of Libra is the stone they call mushroomlike […] And its shape is that of a mushroom, thus the name it has been given.
- DEl .vi. grado del ſigno de libra, es la piedra aque dizé fonguenna […] Et la ſu forma es atal como fongo, ¬ dend a ella eſte nombre.
- c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50v.
Related terms
- alguenno