Noun: pichel
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pichel |
| Plural m | picheis |
Sample Sentences
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1396, M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Separata de Estudios Mindoniense, page 224 (they shall take there twenty solidi and two jugs of wine)
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E cada e quando que fore desta nosa casa un religioso, que le días mesa e mantens e pichel e sal e lugar para duas bestas ena dita casa. (And each and every time a religious man happens to be in that house, you should give to him a place in the table, with blankets, a tankard, salt, and a place for two horses at the aforementioned house) [1511, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 215:]
Nouns inflected like pichel
xornal,
funeral,
barazal,
perixel,
persoal,
pebidal,
parasol,
substancial,
genital,
pirixel,
tornasol,
corporal,
lestegal,
guindal,
cabezal,
canaval,
cardeal,
caravel,
caracol,
caritel, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese pichel (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French pichier (“small jug”), from Late Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Compare English pitcher; more at beaker. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
βῖκος', English Nouns '
pitcher'.
Verbs referencing "pichel"
Spanish Nouns
pichel.
Translations