besugo

Galician

Besugo or ollomol

Besugo or ollomol

Etymology

Unknown. Attested in 1242 ("uesugo").

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /beˈsuɡo/ [beˈs̺u.ɣ̞ʊ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /beˈsuɡo/ [beˈs̺u.ɣ̞ʊ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /beˈsuħo/ [beˈs̺u.ħʊ]

 

• Rhymes: -uɡo

• (standard) Rhymes: -uɡo
• (gheada) Rhymes: -uħo

• Hyphenation: be‧su‧go

Noun

besugo m (plural besugos)

1. blackspot sea bream (Pagellus bogaraveo)
   • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Iten a libra dos corvelos et mugees et robalos et robaliças et reos et vesugos et douradas […] a quatro dineiros cada libra

     Item, the pound of young pollacks and of mullets and of seabasses and of smaller seabasses and of sea trouts and of seabreams and of gilt-head breams […] , four diñeiros each pound

   Synonyms: buraz, ollomol, panchoz

References

• “uesugo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vesugo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “besugo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “besugo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “besugo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish besugo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈzu.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈzu.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /beˈzu.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨˈzu.ɡu/ [bɨˈzu.ɣu]

• Hyphenation: be‧su‧go

Noun

besugo m (plural besugos)

1. seabream
2. (figurative, derogatory) fatso

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈsuɡo/ [beˈsu.ɣ̞o]
• (Castilian)

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• Rhymes: -uɡo
• Syllabification: be‧su‧go

Noun

besugo m (plural besugos)

1. blackspot sea bream (Pagellus bogaraveo)
2. booby, dummy, yokel, clumsy (awkward or stupid person)

Derived terms

• diálogo de besugos

 

See also

• pancho

Further reading

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