bigornia

See also: bigòrnia

Galician

Bigornia ("anvil")

incus

Alternative forms

• bigorna

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin bicornia (“two-horned”). Compare Portuguese bigorna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈɣɔɾnja̝/

Noun

bigornia f (plural bigornias)

1. anvil

   Synonyms: engra, zafra

   • 1858, Juan Manuel Pintos, Xacinto e Catriña:

     Non me veñas Xacinto con liornas / A que eu non lle dou creto, / Que esa labia éche o abouxo das bigornas

     Don't come to me with palavers, which I don't give credit; because this glibness of yours is the din of the anvils

2. (anatomy) the incus bone
3. sea hare (Aplysia punctate)

References

• “bigornia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bigorna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “bigornia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bigornia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish bigornia, bicornia, from a Vulgar Latin *bicŏrnĭa (“anvil”), from Latin bicornis (“two-horned”) nominalized in the feminine with -a. Cognate with Galician bigorna, French bigorne, early modern Italian bicornia, Andalusian, Moroccan and Algerian Arabic بقرنية (buqurnīya).

Noun

bigornia f (plural bigornias)

1. anvil

   Synonym: yunque

Usage notes

• Significantly less commonly used than yunque.

Related terms

• cuerno

 

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “bigornia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 583

Further reading

• “bigornia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014