lamprea

lamprea

Galician

Lampreas at the marketplace

Fishing lampreys

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin lamprēda, naupreda, of obscure, maybe Gaulish, origin.[1][2][3] Cognate with Portuguese lampreia, Spanish lamprea, French lamproie, Italian lampreda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamˈpɾea̝/

Noun

lamprea f (plural lampreas)

1. lamprey
   • 1274, M. Sponer (ed.), "Documentos antiguos de Galicia", Anuari de l'Oficina Románica de Lingüística i Literatura (Barcelona), 7, page 76:

     Outroſi nos dardes cadá ãno por kalendas mayaſ una duzea de bonoſ [s]auééſ τ outra duzea de lanpreas

     Also, you shall give to us yearly, by the calends of May, a dozen good shads and another dozen lampreys

References

• “lamprea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lampre” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “lamprea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lamprea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lamprea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. lamprea.
2. “lamproie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
3. Verhagen, Veerle Pauline (2016) The non-Latin lexis in the cooking terminology of Anthimus' De Observatione Ciborum, Leiden University, pages 28-29.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lamprēda (attested as Medieval Latin lampreda), of uncertain origin: possibly from Late Latin lampetra, from a combination of Latin lambō (“to lick”) and petra (“stone”). Compare Italian lampreda, French lamproie and Portuguese lampreia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lamˈpɾea/ [lãmˈpɾe.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: lam‧pre‧a

Noun

lamprea f (plural lampreas)

1. lamprey (a fish)

Further reading

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