golpella

golpella

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese golpella, from Old Portuguese *vulpicla, from Latin vulpēcula (“fox kit”), diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”).

Noun

golpella f (plural golpellas)

1. (archaic) red fox

Derived terms

• Golpellás
• Golpelleiras
• golpilleira
• Golpilleira
• Golpilleiras
• Gulpilleira
• Gulpilleiras

Related terms

• golpe

References

• “golpella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “golpella” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “golpella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *vulpicla, from Latin vulpēcula (“fox kit”), diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”), from earlier volpēs, from Proto-Italic *wolpi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p- ~ *h₂ulp- (“(red) fox”).

Noun

golpella f (masculine golpello)

1. red fox
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 273 (facsimile):

     […] apeſar do dem aſtroſo que e peor q̇ golpello.

     […] in spite of the odious devil who is worse than a fox.

Descendants

• Galician: golpella
• Portuguese: golpelha