escovilha
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Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: es‧co‧vi‧lha
Etymology 1[edit]
Deverbal from escovilhar, from or related to etymology 2.
Noun[edit]
escovilha f (plural escovilhas)
- act of clearing impurities from gold or silver
Etymology 2[edit]
Perhaps borrowed from Occitan escobilha, from Early Medieval Latin scōpīlia. First attested in the eighteenth century.[1] Compare the Spanish synonym escobilla.
Noun[edit]
escovilha f (plural escovilhas)
- gold or silver filings
References[edit]
- “escovilha” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “scōpīliae”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 325