alvariça

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Derived from Latin alvearium + -āricia.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /alβaˈɾit͡sa/

Noun

alvariça f

  1. apiary, place with beehives usually walled so as to protect it from bears and other predators
    • 1428, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada: Ediciós do Castro, page 186:
      con todos los casarelos que estan en na Touça onde o dito Iohan Afonso monje feso a aluariça
      with all the huts that are in the thicket where the aforementioned monk Xohan Afonso made the apiary

Descendants
  • Galician: alvariza

References
  • “aluariça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
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