ábrego

ábrego

Galician

Etymology

From Latin Africa (“Carthage; area south of Mediterranean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaβɾe̝ɣo̝]

Noun

ábrego m (plural ábregos)

1. south wind
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 65:

     Et jaz esta terra ontre Palestina et Syria ajuntada ahũa parte por seus termynos et aaoutra parte jaz contra mediodia donde vem o vento abrego.

     This land lies in between Palestine and Syria, by one side of its limits, and by another lies against the south, from where the south wind blows

References

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

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• ábrigo (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin āfricus (“African”), referring to the origin of the wind. Doublet of áfrico.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈabɾeɡo/ [ˈa.β̞ɾe.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -abɾeɡo
• Syllabification: á‧bre‧go

Noun

ábrego m (plural ábregos)

1. southwest wind
2. (obsolete) African

   Synonym: africano

Further reading

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