gengivre
Norman
Etymology
Inherited from Old French gengivre, from Late Latin gingiber, from Latin zingiberī.
Noun
gengivre m (plural gengivres)
Old Galician-Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Either from Old Spanish gengibre or directly from the latter's source- Old Occitan gengibre. First attested in the 13th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒenˈd͡ʒiβɾe/
Noun
gengivre m (plural gengibres)
- ginger
- 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 175:
- filla tres dramas de cravos girofes e tres onças de galingal e outro tanto de cardomomo e outro tanto de gengivre e outro tanto d’alcoravina e outro tanto de canela, e a semente do fuuncho en maior contia destas todas.
- take three drachmas of clove, and three ounces of galangal, and as much of cardamom, and as much of ginger, and as much of caraway, and as much of cinnamon, and seeds of fennel in the largest amount of them all
Descendants
- Galician: xenxibre, xenxebre, sinxebra, gengibre (reintegrationist)
- Portuguese: gengibre
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “gengiure”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega