fonguenno
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Old Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From fongo (“mushroom”) + -enno.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
fonguenno (feminine singular fonguenna, masculine plural fonguennos, feminine plural fonguennas)
- mushroomlike, fungiform
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50v:
- DEl .vi. grado del ſigno de libra, es la piedra aque dizẽ fonguenna […] Et la ſu forma es atal como fongo, ⁊ dend a ella eſte nombre.
- Of the sixth degree of the sign of Libra is the stone they call mushroomlike […] And its shape is that of a mushroom, thus the name it has been given.