gengibre

• gengivre, gingivre, gingibre (15th c.)

Either from Old Spanish gengibre or directly from the latter's source- Old Occitan gengibre. First attested in the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒenˈd͡ʒibɾe/

gengibre m (plural gengibres)

1. ginger

• Galician: xenxibre, xenxebre, sinxebra, gengibre (reintegrationist)
• Portuguese: gengibre

• Da Cunha, Antônio Geraldo (2012) “gengibre”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Lexicon

• gengivre

Borrowed from Old Occitan gengibre.

• IPA^(key): /ʒenˈʒibɾe/

gengibre m (plural gengibres)

1. ginger

• Spanish: jengibre
  • → Basque: jengibre
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: gengibre, gengivre, gingivre, gingibre (15th c.)
  • Galician: xenxibre, xenxebre, sinxebra, gengibre (reintegrationist)
  • Portuguese: gengibre
• → Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: xenxibre

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “jengibre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 506

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gengibre, either from Old Spanish gengibre or directly from the latter’s source: Old Occitan gengibre, from Late Latin gingiber, from Latin zingiberī. Compare Galician xenxibre.

• Hyphenation: gen‧gi‧bre

gengibre m (plural gengibres)

1. ginger