orçuelo

orçuelo

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin hordeolus (“stye”), diminutive of hordeum (“barley”). According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested ca. 1400, in the Glossaries of El Escorial and Toledo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾˈtswelo/

Noun

orçuelo (m)

1. stye
   • ca. 1429, Alfonso Chirino, Menor daño de la medicina (Escorial, b.IV.34) 115r:[1]

     Para enel orçuelo que se faze enel ojo que es de fo[r]ma de grano de çeuada frotenlo a menudo con moscas cortadas las cabecas esto faga de dia & tengan ençima del de noche vn pañezuelo de buen diaquilon

     For the stye that grows in one's eye, in the shape of a barley, rub it often with flies after cutting their heads. Do this during the day, and at night have a piece of cloth of good diachylon.

Descendants

• Spanish: orzuelo, ozuelo (non-standard)

References

1. as shown in the RAE's Diachronic Corpus of Spanish (CORDE), accessed 2021-02-27

• Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1985), “orzuelo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 317