esparto

From Spanish esparto, via Latin spartum from Ancient Greek σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable; esparto or halfah grass”), valued for its high tensile strength, used for cords and wicker, and exported by Spanish Greek colonies throughout the Mediterranian.

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)təʊ

esparto (uncountable)

1. Either of two species of perennial grasses used for fibre production, and for making paper:
   1. Stipa tenacissima, of North Africa.

      Synonyms: halfa, esparto grass, halfah grass, needlegrass

   2. Lygeum spartum, of the Mediterranean.

      Synonyms: albardine, esparto grass, cord grass

• esparto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stipa tenacissima on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Pastore, Tropeas, to spare, teraops, Pateros, Proteas, proteas, seaport, Portsea

Inherited from Latin spartum (“esparto or halfah grass”), from Ancient Greek σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable; esparto or halfah grass”), valued for its high tensile strength, used for cords and wicker, and exported by Spanish Greek colonies throughout the Mediterranian. Cognate to Galician esporta.

• IPA^(key): /esˈpaɾto̝/

esparto m (plural espartos)

1. esparto (grass)
   • 1433, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro, editors, Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435), Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, →ISBN, page 53:

     […] hũu estrenque d'esparto novo et hũu estrenque vello d'esparto, et con seu treu que son tres monetas et hũu papafigo et con todos los outros seus aparellos […]

     […] a new rope of esparto, and an old rope also of esparto, with its set of sails, composed of three minor sails and a mainsail, with all the additional rigging […]

2. scourer

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esparto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “espart”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esparto”, 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), “esparto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esparto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /esˈpaɾto/ [esˈpaɾ.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -aɾto
• Syllabification: es‧par‧to

Inherited from Latin spartum (“esparto or halfah grass”), from Ancient Greek σπάρτον (spárton, “rope, cable; esparto or halfah grass”), valued for its high tensile strength, used for cords and wicker, and exported by Spanish Greek colonies throughout the Mediterranian. Cognate to Spanish espuerta.

esparto m (plural espartos)

1. esparto (grass)

   Synonym: atocha

2. One of the Spartoi

• → English: esparto

esparto

1. first-person singular present indicative of espartar

• “esparto”, 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