enxame – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of enxame

Noun: enxame
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular menxame
Plural menxames

Sample Sentences

  • Vinte cinco ducias D'obos
  • eu lle ofrezo, porque teñan
  • conque fazer os Formigos,
  • e de mel vnha caldeyra,
  • que os meus cobos e cortizos
  • teñen moy boas entenas;
  • porque sairon ogano
  • moytos enjames d'abellas. (Twenty-five dozens of eggs
  • I offer her, so that they have the necessary
  • to cook the formigos;
  • and of honey a cauldron,
  • because my skeps and hives
  • have very good honeycombs,
  • because this year
  • many swarms of bees went out) [1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:]
  • Item mando a iglesia de (...) hun eyxame que seia para o lume (Item, I grant to the church of (...) a beehive, for the light [for paying for the lightning of the church]) [1411, M. Mar Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 260:]

Nouns inflected like enxame

miligramo, mililitro, acontecemento, urodelo, ancoradoiro, vimieiro, serrón, sesego, sedeño, iceberg, sarrio, sabuio, sabugo, sabujo, sabuxo, sabelo, sangue, saibro, saltón, salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese eixame (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin exāmen. Cognate with Portuguese enxame, Spanish enjambre, Catalan eixam, Occitan eissam, French essaim and Italian sciame. See: Latin Nouns 'exāmen', Portuguese Nouns 'enxame', Spanish Nouns 'enjambre', Catalan Nouns 'eixam', French Nouns 'essaim', Italian Nouns 'sciame'.

Verbs referencing "enxame"

Portuguese Nouns enxame.

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