avespa

Ultimately from Latin vespa (“wasp”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈbespa/
• Rhymes: -espa
• Syllabification: a‧ves‧pa

avespa f (plural avespas)

1. wasp, bee

   Synonym: abella (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

• vespa

Attested since circa 1300 (vespas). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin vespa. Probably influenced by abella (“bee”). Cognate with Portuguese vespa and Spanish avispa.

• IPA^(key): [aˈβespɐ]

avespa f (plural avespas)

1. wasp (insect)

   Synonyms: avéspora, nespra

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 39:

     cõmo as [avellas], as vespas, as moscas, os vermẽes et as outras cousas taes cõmo estas, quese nõ entende que as Deus mãdase a Noe meter ẽna arca, nẽ el nõ as meteo em ella

     as the bees, the wasps, the flies, the worms and the other things such as these, which one cannot understand how God would have ordered Noah to put in the ark, nor did he put them in it

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “avespa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vespas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “avespa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “avespa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “avespa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “avéspora”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN