bigornia

• bigorna

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin bicornia (“two-horned”). Compare Portuguese bigorna.

• Rhymes: -ɔɾnja
• Hyphenation: bi‧gor‧nia

bigornia f (plural bigornias)

1. anvil

   Synonyms: engra, zafra

   • 1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Xacinto e Catriña:

     Non me veñas Xacinto con liornas / A que eu non lle dou creto, / Que esa labia éche o abouxo das bigornas

     Don't come to me with palavers, which I don't give credit; because this glibness of yours is the din of the anvils

2. (anatomy) the incus bone
3. sea hare (Aplysia punctate)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bigornia”, 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, editor (2006–2013), “bigorna”, 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), “bigornia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bigornia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Spanish bigornia, bicornia, from a Vulgar Latin *bicŏrnĭa (“anvil”), from Latin bicornis (“two-horned”) nominalized in the feminine with -a. Cognate with Galician bigorna, French bigorne, early modern Italian bicornia, Andalusian, Moroccan and Algerian Arabic بقرنية (buqurnīya).

bigornia f (plural bigornias)

1. anvil

   Synonym: yunque

• Significantly less commonly used than yunque.

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “bigornia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 583

• “bigornia”, 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