cribo

See also: cribó

English

Etymology

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Noun

cribo (plural cribos)

1. Any of various snakes in the genus Drymarchon.
   • 1871, Harper's Magazine, volume 43, page 844:

     It is a singular fact that this snake, so fatal to man, has no power against another West Indian snake, almost equally common, namely, the cribo.

Anagrams

• boric, orbic

Asturian

Verb

cribo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar

Galician

Prehistoric petroglyph at Outeiro do Cribo ("Hill of the Sieve"), Galicia

Etymology 1

Attested since circa 1300. From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cribum, dissimilated form of Latin cribrum attested in some late glosses, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to seive”). Cognate with Portuguese crivo and Spanish criba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɾi.βʊ]

Noun

cribo m (plural cribos)

1. (agriculture) winnow

   Synonym: xoeira

2. sieve

   Synonym: peneira

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 264:

     furarõ aquel vaso todo porlo fondo [como] criuo

     They pierced that vase all by its bottom as a sieve

Related terms

• bailanocribo
• criba
• cribar
• cribeiro
• cribelo
• cribón

 

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

cribo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar

Spanish

Verb

cribo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cribar