barbeito

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin vervactum (“fallow ground”), from vervagō (“to plough or break fallow land”), of unknown origin.

Cognate with Portuguese barbeito and Spanish barbecho.

• IPA^(key): /baɾˈβejto̝/

barbeito m (plural barbeitos)

1. fallow
2. farmland

• Barbeita
• Barbeitas
• Barbeito
• Barbeitos

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barueyt”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “barbeito”, 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), “barbeito”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “barbeito”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: bar‧bei‧to

barbeito m (plural barbeitos)

1. (agriculture) fallow (tilling of land without sowing it)