pombo

From Old Galician-Portuguese *poombo, Old Galician-Portuguese *paombo, from Latin palumbus, from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (“dark-colored, gray”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔmbo̝/

pombo m (plural pombos)

1. wood pigeon

   Synonyms: torgás, trocaza

• pomba
• pombal
• Pombeiro
• pombela
• Pombo

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese *poombo, from Latin palumbus (“wood pigeon”), from Proto-Indo-European *pal-wo (“dark-colored, gray”). Cognate with Spanish paloma.

• Rhymes: -õbu
• Hyphenation: pom‧bo

pombo m (plural pombos, feminine pomba, feminine plural pombas)

1. pigeon

• “pombo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pombo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025