ferruxe

• furruxe

15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese *ferrugẽ, from Latin ferrūgō, ferrūginem (“iron rust”). Sincronically, reanalysis of ferro (“iron”) +‎ -uxe. Cognate with Portuguese ferrugem.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /feˈruʃe/ [feˈru.ʃɪ]
• Rhymes: -uʃe
• Hyphenation: fe‧rru‧xe

ferruxe f (plural ferruxes)

1. iron rust
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 117:

     Para esto val a ferruien mesturada con sal et con azeyte.

     For this is useful the iron rust admixed with salt and olive oil

2. stem rust (Puccinia graminis)

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