berce
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
berce f (plural berces)
Verb[edit]
berce
- inflection of bercer:
Further reading[edit]
- “berce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested since 1697. Ultimately from *bertium, probably from Gaulish *berta, from Proto-Celtic *bertā, variant of *bereti (“to carry”).[1][2]
Cognate with Portuguese berço and French berceau; compare Old Irish bert (“bundle”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
berce m (plural berces)
- cradle, crib
- Synonym: rolo
- 1697, Juan Antonio Torrado, Fala o corvo, escoiten todos:
- Este lugar non foi berzo
Na sua idade mais tenra?
Non lle debeu à crianza,
Todo ò seu ser, è à sabenza?- Was not this place his crib
during his most tender age?
Doesn't he owe it his upbringing,
his whole being and his knowledge?
- Was not this place his crib
- 1707, Salvador F. Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
- Deceme miña comadre
o Berse, de que madeyra
serà, para o noso Infante?- Tell me, sister,
The crib, of which wood
Will it be for our Prince?
- Tell me, sister,
- (figurative) origin
References[edit]
- “berce” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “berce” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “berce” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Grzega, Joachim (2001) Romania Gallica Cisalpina etymologisch-geolinguistische Studien zu den oberitalienisch-rätoromanischen Keltizismen[1], Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, pages 82-83 – via De Gruyter.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “brizo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
berce
- inflection of berçar:
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