bálsamo

• basmo

From Old Galician-Portuguese balsamo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbalsɐmʊ]

bálsamo m (plural bálsamos)

1. balsam (resin)
2. balsam (plant)
3. balsam (ointment)

   Synonyms: pomada, ungüento

   • 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 150:

     Sabede que ẽno mũdo nõ ha jnçenso nẽ frol nẽ balsamo nẽ outra cousa que tã bõo olor aja cõmo esta pẽna.

     You must know that in the world there is no incense, flower, balsam, nor another thing that has such a good smell as this pelt

• balsámico
• embalsamar

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

Borrowed from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon).

• Hyphenation: bál‧sa‧mo

bálsamo m (plural bálsamos)

1. balsam (sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from some plants)

• embalsamar

Borrowed from Latin balsamum,^[1] from Ancient Greek βάλσαμον (bálsamon, “balsam-bearing tree, plant”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbalsamo/ [ˈbal.sa.mo]
• Rhymes: -alsamo
• Syllabification: bál‧sa‧mo

bálsamo m (plural bálsamos)

1. balsam
2. balsam (tree or shrub)
3. hair conditioner

   Synonym: acondicionador

• → Highland Popoluca: balsamo

• “bálsamo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024