enxame

• einxame, enxamio

From Old Galician-Portuguese eixame (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin exāmen. Cognate with Portuguese enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame.

• IPA^(key): /enˈʃame/ [enʲˈʃa.mɪ]
• Rhymes: -ame
• Hyphenation: en‧xa‧me

enxame m (plural enxames)

1. swarm
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     Vinte cinco ducias D'obos
     eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan
     conque fazer os Formigos,
     e de mel vnha caldeyra,
     que os meus cobos e cortizos
     teñen moy boas entenas;
     porque sairon ogano
     moytos enjames d'abellas.

     Twenty-five dozens of eggs
     I offer her, so that they have the necessary
     to cook the formigos;
     and of honey a cauldron,
     because my skeps and hives
     have very good honeycombs,
     because this year
     many swarms of bees went out

2. beehive

   Synonym: colmea

   • 1411, M. Mar Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 260:

     Item mando a iglesia de (...) hun eyxame que seia para o lume

     Item, I grant to the church of (...) a beehive, for the light [for paying for the lightning of the church]

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “eixame”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “eixame” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “enxame”, 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), “enxame”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “enxame”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese eixame, from Latin exāmen.

Cognate with Galician enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame. Doublet of exame.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
• Hyphenation: en‧xa‧me

enxame m (plural enxames)

1. swarm

• enxamear