bigòrnia

Catalan

Alternative forms

  • bicòrnia, picòrnia

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan bigòrnia, bicòrnia, from a Vulgar Latin *bicŏrnĭa (“anvil”), from Latin bicornis (“two-horned”) nominalized in the feminine with -a.

Pronunciation

Noun

bigòrnia f (plural bigòrnies)

  1. a type of small double-horned anvil used mainly by blacksmiths and tinsmiths

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