corgo

• córrago

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as corrego, from local Vulgar Latin (documented by Pliny the Elder as corrugus), from a local Indo-European substrate language. Cognate with Portuguese córrego and Spanish cuérrago.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɾɣʊ]

corgo m (plural corgos)

1. ravine; brook
2. a small dam or pool

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

• Hyphenation: cor‧go

corgo m (plural corgos)

1. alternative form of córrego

• Corgo