miolo
Catalan
Verb
miolo
- first-person singular present indicative form of miolar
Galician
FWOTD – 3 March 2018
Alternative forms
- meolo, molo
Etymology
14th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese meolo, from Vulgar Latin *medullum, from Latin medulla (“marrow”). Compare Spanish meollo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈolo̝/, /miˈɔlo̝/
Noun
miolo m (plural miolos)
- crumb, soft part (of bread etc)
- Synonyms: miga, rafa
- marrow
- Synonyms: medula, miolo dos ósos
- core or kernel (usually soft)
- Synonyms: cerna, núcleo (usually hard)
- (colloquial, in the plural) brain
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 692:
- Et despois que o uirõ ajuso, lançárõlle grandes pedras, en tal guisa que lle poserõ os ollos fora et os meolos da cabeça
- And after they saw him there under, they throw large boulders at him, so that his eyes and brain came out of his head
- Et despois que o uirõ ajuso, lançárõlle grandes pedras, en tal guisa que lle poserõ os ollos fora et os meolos da cabeça
- 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 19:
- Entõ leuãtou hũu dos fariseus hũu pao de ferro que tomou et doulle cõ el tã grãde ferida na cabeça et estrulloulle todo los meolos et deitoullos fora
- Then, one of the Pharisees took one rod of iron and raised it and so strongly struck it against his head that he crushed his brain and threw it out
- Entõ leuãtou hũu dos fariseus hũu pao de ferro que tomou et doulle cõ el tã grãde ferida na cabeça et estrulloulle todo los meolos et deitoullos fora
- Synonym: cerebro
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 692:
- (figuratively) judgement, reason
Related terms
- miolo dos ósos (“marrow”)
References
- “meolo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “meolo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “miolo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “miolo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “miolo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese meolo, from Vulgar Latin *medullum, from Latin medulla (“marrow”). Compare Spanish meollo.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /mi.ˈo.lu/, /ˈmjo.lu/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmjo.lu/
Noun
miolo m (plural miolos)
- crumb; soft part (of bread etc)
- marrow
- (botany) core; kernel (of a fruit)
- (colloquial, in the plural) brain
- (figuratively) judgement, reason
Synonyms
- (brain): cérebro