bigòrnia

Catalan

Alternative forms

bicòrnia, picòrnia

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan bigòrnia, bicòrnia, from a Vulgar Latin *bicŏrnĭa (“anvil”), from Latin bicornis (“two-horned”) nominalized in the feminine with -a.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [biˈɣɔr.ni.ə]

IPA^(key): (Valencian) [biˈɣɔɾ.ni.a]

Noun

bigòrnia f (plural bigòrnies)

a type of small double-horned anvil used mainly by blacksmiths and tinsmiths

Hypernyms

enclusa

Related terms

corn

Further reading

“bigòrnia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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