golpella

From Old Galician-Portuguese golpella, from Old Galician-Portuguese *vulpicla, from Latin vulpēcula (“fox kit”), diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”).

golpella f (plural golpellas)

1. (archaic) red fox

• golpe

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “golpella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “golpella” 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), “golpella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Vulgar Latin *vulpicla, from Latin vulpēcula (“fox kit”), diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”), from earlier volpēs, from Proto-Italic *wolpi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl(o)p- ~ *h₂ulp- (“(red) fox”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡolˈpeʎa/

golpella f (plural golpellas) (masculine golpello)

1. red fox
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 273 (facsimile):

     […] apeſar do dem aſtroſo que e peor q̇ golpello.

     […] in spite of the odious devil who is worse than a fox.

• Galician: golpella
• Portuguese: golpelha