mármore

From Old Galician-Portuguese marmor (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin marmor, marmore, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros, “marble”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɾmʊɾɪ]

mármore m (plural mármores)

1. marble (material)
   • 1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 291:

     os troyanos tynam sua villa moy bem gardada, et dizervos ey cõmo elles tynã a villa moy forte: os muros dela erã moy fortes et moyto altos et nõ de tapea, ante eram de marmore jalde et negro et vermello et vis

     the Trojans had their town very well defended, and I'll tell you how they had their town so strong: their walls very strong and very tall, and made not of clay, but of yellow and black and red and brown marble

• “marmor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “marmor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mármore” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mármore” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

From Old Galician-Portuguese marmor, from Vulgar Latin *marmŏrem, from Latin marmor n, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros, “marble”).

• Hyphenation: már‧mo‧re

mármore m (plural mármores)

1. marble (crystalline limestone)
2. marble sculpture

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mármore.

• (marble stone): pedra, rocha
• (marble sculpture): escultura, estátua

• (marble stone): arenito, ardósia, basalto, calcário, granito, obsidiana
• (marble sculpture): bronze

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