caravilla
Galician
Alternative forms
- cavilla, cravilla
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cravilla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned term derived from Latin clavicula (“little key”). Doublet of chavella and clavícula. Compare Portuguese cravelha and Spanish clavija.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaɾaˈβiʎa̝/
Noun
caravilla f (plural caravillas)
- hook bolt; latch
- Fun ó muiño d'abaixo, e volvín polo d'arriba; o d'abaixo ten ferrollo, o d'arriba caravilla. (folk song)
- I went to the watermill below, I came back by the one above; the one below has a bolt, and the one above a latch.
- Synonyms: charnela, martabela, pecho, tarabelo
- (music) peg
- 1807, anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:
- outros contaban que Beja
- lle apretara as carabillas.
- Esto ben podrà ser certo,
- p[o]rq[u]e cando este Señor
- lle berraba, el tembraba,
- é aposto eu que tiña
- ó ollo do cu tan cerrado,
- que era imposible coupese
- un grau de millo p[o]r el;
- others told that Beja
- had tightened his pegs.
- This is probably true,
- because when this lord
- was shouting him, he was trembling
- and I bet that
- his asshole was so tight
- that it was not possible that
- a corn grain entered in it
- 1807, anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:
- (carpentry) peg
- 1418, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 117:
- destes por nove cravillas para as traves viinte moravedis
- You gave, for nine pegs for the beans, twenty maravedis
- destes por nove cravillas para as traves viinte moravedis
- Synonyms: chavella, cuña, torno
- peg under the bed of the cart used for tying and securing the load with ropes
- Synonyms: brión, veo
- one of several pegs which fasten the wheels to the axe in a traditional Galician cart
- Synonym: entrouso
- 1418, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 117:
Related terms
- chave
- chavella
References
- “cravilla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cravilla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “caravilla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “caravilla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “caravilla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.